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

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

I messed with Interix (called Subsystem for Unix-Based Applications at 
the time) on Vista Ultimate (which you need to get SFUA anyway). It was 
an interesting experience...

I can't think of any single thing that would make me recommend it over 
Cygwin, other than the fact that you get the novelty of using a 
Microsoft-issue POSIX environment. I've ported code to it for compile 
testing, and it worked fine for that.

After I installed gperf from source
After I installed bison from source
After I installed cvs from source

... I think you see where I'm going with this. It was all the fun of 
old, mid-90s slackware, with none of the reward of having a working 
system at the end; after all, you're still on windows, and your *nix app 
is still in a terminal window.

With that said, SFUA was the only way I was getting real NFS support in 
Vista, and that I *don't* regret. The Vista NFS client is pretty damn 
fast, even if it does suck at remembering to remount the shares on reboot :)

If I had to sum it up: Interix is pretty neat, but it's not worth the 
headache to get it to a useful point if you're just tinkering.

-Sean

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> 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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