Talk:Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX
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[edit] Versus Cygwin
When I arrived the article contained the claim, "It is an implementation of an environment subsystem running within the Windows kernel. This significantly improves performance, stability and security compared with the emulation used by Cygwin."
This may well be the case, but no sources are cited. The claim thus lacks verifiability, and the security claim in particular may be considered POV. As a temporary measure I've reworded the second sentence to meet Wikipedia's basic standards for claims for which no evidence is available. Can anyone help out by providing verifiable sources for any or all of these claims? Haeleth 14:25, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Next version
Next scheduled release is version 5.2 on December, 2005 (for Windows 2003 Server Release 2, aka W2K3/R2, only - no mention of this on the SFU page [1] - in fact it's been EOL'd by Microsoft. Can anyone confirm/deny the new version? Disregard this question. Found answer myself, at [2].
Can someone fix RaviC's Image (resize it to appropriate size?), as it is the only image I can find. TheGuest
[edit] From OpenBSD?
I recall that a lot of the userland programs are from OpenBSD (as compared to MKS Toolkit, which uses independent reimplementations), but don't recall a source for that. Anyone got one? - David Gerard 12:04, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
- I'm far from an expert on this subject, but the USENIX paper linked from the article under the name History of the Interix subsystem contains the following:
- Much of the original utility base for the early INTERIX commands and utilities came straight off the 4.4BSD-Lite distribution. The general flow was to copy the source distribution over to a working directory, use a simple template makefile, and begin simple compile-edit cycles until the utility built. (6.14.4, p.10)
- Might that be what you were thinking of? — Haeleth Talk 12:44, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
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- http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030927090008 Running strings on it, see what the sources are. Janizary 23:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merging Interix to here
Someone has suggested merging the Interix entry with SFU. That's wrong. Don't do it. SFU is now EOL, though it will be used for many years still. Interix (one of the components of SFU) continues to evolve as it is now bundled with the base OS release starting with Windows 2003/R2 (Interix version 5.2) and continuing with Vista (Interix version 6.0).
