RE: Cygwin vs: Windoze services for Unix

2003-07-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
: 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 evaluati

Re: Cygwin vs: Windoze services for Unix

2003-07-18 Thread Doug VanLeuven
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 'compet

Re: Cygwin vs: Windoze services for Unix

2003-07-18 Thread David Sharp
Windows Services for Unix does not get updated very often, if ever. If you phone microsoft about it they say it is just for migrating old unix software to a windows environment. terry wrote: I just received an evaluation copy with Linux Magazine as was wondering if this is a direct 'competit

Cygwin vs: Windoze services for Unix

2003-07-18 Thread terry
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 ;>).