Cygwin vs: Windoze services for Unix

DePriest, Jason R. jrdepriest@ftb.com
Fri Jul 18 23:22:00 GMT 2003


I used to have a universal subscription to MSDN (until I switched
departments) and I was able to test Windows Services for Unix and the
(at the time) separate Interix subsystem.

They do what they are supposed to do, but cygwin does a whole lot more.

I found the cygwin project to be actively developed and far more robust
than the other offerings.

I have no idea what the newest versions of WSfU offer, but I highly
doubt it has the day-to-day usefulness of cygwin.

-Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug VanLeuven [mailto:roamdad@attglobal.net] 
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:00 PM
To: cygwin-list
Subject: Re: Cygwin vs: Windoze services for Unix


The interix subsystem isn't as flexible as cygwin IMHO.
The useful bits are the NFS utilities which do not have source & 
password synchronization which has source for *nix (not GPL).

terry wrote:

> I just received an evaluation copy with Linux Magazine as was 
> wondering if this is a direct 'competitive' product to Cygwin, and if 
> so, what are the significant functional differences (other than the 
> obvious - not being open source / free software and Cygwin being 
> higher quality, of course ;>).

-- 

Doug VanLeuven




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