[XCSSA] MS POSIX Subsystem For WindowsNT--> Windows Services for UNIX Now = "Interix"

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio xcssa at xcssa.org
Tue Aug 4 16:58:58 CDT 2009


I thought that MS was killing off all the POSIX tools packages and support in 
2010, but it looks like they're rebranding them yet again and including them 
as an optional environment in Windows 7 called Interix (v6.1).

Check it out:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_Services_for_UNIX

It's interesting that they're including so much GNU/GPL code.  I mean with the 
hazards (the them) of it splitting open the status of Windows source code if 
ANYTHING ever gets "mixed in" to their non GPL side by accident.

Q: Has anyone had any experience with using Interix and can compare/contrast 
it against say Cygwin?  It seems that it's still missing some pretty major 
stuff: X11 server, vim (over just vi),  OpenSSH, sudo, etc.  

I still don't understand why someone would use this over say Cygwin.

Anyone?

Tweeks



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