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MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge
- From: "Robb, Sam" <sam dot robb at timesys dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:43:15 -0500
- Subject: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge
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
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17300643>
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.
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