OT: Microsoft's UNIX

[asian1]

Hello
Several Microsoft corporate customer had received
Beta Version of Microsoft's Service For Unix.
This product is developed by SCO and actually
a complete Unix shell for Windows XP. The main
competitors are Cygwin, Mingw and WinLinux.

[iamaboringperson]

Do you mean Xenix?

[asian1]

Hello
No. This is just an Unix shell on top of Windows:
SFU (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu)
Competitors:
WinLinux (http://www.winlinux.net)
Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com)
Mingw (http://www.mingw.org)
Is it possible to create similar thing with
AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS? (Linux on top of AmigaOS or
Linux on top of MorphOS)

[bloodline]

asian1 wrote:
Hello
No. This is just an Unix shell on top of Windows:
SFU (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu)
Competitors:
WinLinux (http://www.winlinux.net)
Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com)
Mingw (http://www.mingw.org)
Is it possible to create similar thing with
AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS? (Linux on top of AmigaOS or
Linux on top of MorphOS)

ixemul.library

[adolescent]

Services for Unix is nothing new. We've been using it for several years mainly for it's NFS and NIS features. The Interix feature you are talking about has been available also but as a seperate product. I've never used it (I use Cygwin instead) so I can't comment on what is new in the beta.

BTW, anyone can download the beta. It's available publicly at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp

[mikey2001]

It will be interesting to see how stable these services for UNIX are on Windows though... ;-)

[adolescent]

Well, from experience the NFS service and the NIS sync work fine. We've had no real issues after initial configuration. As for the Interix, that would depend on the quality of the application that was ported to it.