Maciej Sieczka wrote: > Forgive my ignorance but I haven't seen any discussion about this on > GRASS lists yet.
There's been a lot of "would SFU be useful" discussion, which invariably stalls at "possibly; it would be nice if someone actually tries it". > I have just read about Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) [1] - > a UNIX subsystem that integrates with the Windows kernel as the Win32 > subsystem does. Unlike Cygwin which runs on top of the Windows shell as > an emulator, SFU implements a true UNIX peer to the Windows shell, > which provides better performance (I heard that GRASS happens to be > slow in Cygwin). Everything's slow in Cygwin. > I was wondering if SFU could be help for Windows GRASS users. Possibly; it would be nice if someone actually tries it. ;) It's more likely to be useful as an alternative to MSys than to Cygwin. I suspect that SFU isn't going to be sufficiently Unix compatible to replace Cygwin (there's more to Unix than just POSIX). -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
