On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:05 pm, I wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2003 09:02 pm, Dan Kegel wrote: > > I recently posted with problems running Microsoft's > > Services for Unix under Wine. I only tried it out > > of morbid curiosity, actually, and because MS was > > offering it for free. The free offer expired, but > > it's back again for a little while; slashdot.org > > seems to be running banner ads for it. I'd encourage > > any of you who even *might* be tempted to try this > > out to go order the CD-ROM. It would be way bitchin' > > cool if we could nest Wine and MS SFU (I seem to recall > > we can't nest Wine in Cygwin for some technical reason, > > but who knows, maybe SFU won't have the same problem). > > - Dan > > Don't get your hopes up; they are nothing to write home about.
Perhaps I spoke too soon, although when I evaluated this long ago, it was probably true. MS has acquired (license to?) Interix and SFU3.5 is based on it; it is now available for download from Microsoft for free, I do not think it's supposed to be a limited-time offer this time. I recently learned that SFU (3.5, at least) is actually a Windows "subsystem," which supposedly should mean that it is not a compatibility layer like cygwin implemented on top of the Windows API. Could be fun, I definitely will give it a whorl presently... -- gmt "It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore, establishing the Constitution, will not be a NATIONAL, but a FEDERAL act." --James Madison, Federalist No. 39
