Only 209Mb of fun. Estimated time to complete: 19 minutes -Craig --- Mark Wonsil <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Microsoft alternative to Cygwin... > > JANUARY 14, 2004 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Microsoft Corp. tomorrow will release > the latest version of its Unix/Windows integration software, available for > free on the company's Web site. > The prior incarnation of Services For Unix (SFU) listed for $99, although > Microsoft offered deals allowing some users to get it for free. > > Version 3.5 features about a 50% performance improvement when tapping into > Unix NFS (Network File System) -- making it within 10% of native Windows > I/O, according to Dennis Oldroyd of Microsoft's server division -- and on > eight-way clusters. Other improvements include support for Posix threading, > meaning a new set of Unix applications can be compiled and run SFU. > > Oldroyd declined to say how many copies of SFU have shipped to date, but he > said it was a "small fraction" of overall Windows server customers. > > Starting tomorrow, SFU 3.5 can be downloaded at > www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/downloads/default.asp. > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * > * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *