Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4005C3BD.1090102@msu.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:33:33 -0500 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D022F4780@exchange.timesys.com> <6.0.1.1.0.20040114154331.03843fc8@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040114154331.03843fc8@127.0.0.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV X-IsSubscribed: yes Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but since SFU comes with a great (and free) X Server, I am throwing in the towel. Harold Larry Hall wrote: > Actually, this has always been a potential issue, since SFU has been around > for a while. The biggest conflicts, beyond path clashes which we > unequivocally state must be resolved by putting Cygwin first in the path, > are likely to be services. But, so far, we haven't seen lots of complaints > here about SFU clashes. Maybe we'll see more now that it's free to download > and use. Or maybe SFU just works well with Cygwin. ;-) But beyond > curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and use both, at least > concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address the same needs and Cygwin covers > a wider range of tools. We'll see what happens though. > > Larry > > > At 02:43 PM 1/14/2004, Robb, Sam you wrote: > >>Thought this might interest some of the folks who frequent >>this list... particularly those who have to support Cygwin >>installations, and might now have to deal with a parallel >>(conflicting?) install of SFU :-/ >> >>-Samrobb >> >> >> >>Microsoft Offers Linux-Interoperability Software For Free >>Jan. 13, 2004 >> >>Microsoft has decided to drop the $99 licensing fee previously >>required for its Services For Unix software and plans to make >>a new version of the interoperability product available this >>week at no cost on its Web site. >> >>... >> >>The three main components of SFU--Unix's Network File System >>and Network Identity Service and Microsoft's Interix layer of >>Posix APIs--have all been tuned for better performance, with >>some commands running 50% faster, Oldroyd says. SFU 3.5 also >>features first-time support for P-Threads (for Posix-compliant >>multithreaded applications), a broader set of Posix APIs, and >>updated utilities and libraries. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/