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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: "Max" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: The Empire Strikes Back...sorta Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:35:51 -0400 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <3D2B2E23.7030704@ece.gatech.edu> Reply-To: "Max" NNTP-Posting-Host: sdn-ar-002vacharp279.dialsprint.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026250596 23175 168.191.212.209 (9 Jul 2002 21:36:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:36:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 "Charles Wilson" wrote in message news:3D2B2E23.7030704@ece.gatech.edu... > "How to port Unix Apps to Windows" > > http://www.x-solutions.com/SFU/Intro.php > > Let's see if THIS attempt is any more successful than their last Interix > "solution". Cygwin rules! Touting telnet and remote shell as major features vs. ssh/scp in this day and age doesn't impress me a bit .. in fact it makes me go "BLECH!! AKK!" ... and then listing C shell vs. tcsh and ksh vs. bash/zsh as the two major shells .. I think this is another MS attempt that will not go over well (in my opinion). NFS has been done well between PCs and Unices for years now with 3rd party tools ... many times. .... and there is Samba as well .. The only thing that looks remotely interesting is the POSIX compliant subsystem, which Cygwin is developing at, in my opinion, a very fast rate ... in my opinion .. I think Cygwin will be much more feature-rich and stable than SFU will ever be .... I tried an early version of the UNIX services for Windows on NT 4 ... and they were awful ... that same year there was a port of IE 4 for Solaris ... awful as well! And also, as someone else said, they do not support Win9x ... I don't think there should be any concern that this will overshadow Cygwin ... I don't think there is :) ... after all, the first release of UNIX services for Windows came out in what, 1997 .. and how aware is the general admin/user community about it? I would say not very :) .. and for good reason. It was awful. Max -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/