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Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge
Chris January wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and use
both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address the same
needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll
see what happens though.
One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/ I
know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at SFU.
It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop
filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS,
EXTFS, etc.
Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect project. :-)
Isn't the SFU NFS client an installable file system, i.e. you can use
it anywhere in Windows, not just with the SFU stuff?
Last I checked SFU's NFS was just DiskAccess and the POSIX was merely a
30-day trial of MKS. Has that changed (aside from possibly the MKS
portion being a non time bombed trial -> a full copy)?
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