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Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a package which provides a Unix compliant environment on Microsoft Windows computers. It provides both a subsystem, named Interix and a set of tools. Microsoft does not intend to produce any further versions of the product and plans to discontinue support for it [1] because it is being integrated as part of the regular OS distribution[2]. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Unix-like. ...
Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments for personal computers and servers. ...
Interix is the name of an optional, full-featured POSIX and UNIX personality for Microsoft Windows systems. ...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worlds largest software company owned by ebay systems (and one of the largest companies in the world period), with over 50,000 employees in various countries as of May 2004. ...
Interix is not an emulation of a Unix kernel. It is an implementation of an environment subsystem running within the Windows kernel. This significantly improves performance, stability and security compared with the emulation used by Cygwin. Interix is the name of an optional, full-featured POSIX and UNIX personality for Microsoft Windows systems. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Unix-like. ...
Cygwin is a collection of free software tools originally developed by Cygnus Solutions to allow various versions of Microsoft Windows to act somewhat like a UNIX system. ...
SFU contains:
- Over 350 Unix utilities such as vi, ksh, csh, ls, cat, awk, grep, etc.
- GCC 3.3 compiler, includes and libraries
- A cc-like wrapper for Microsoft Visual Studio command-line C/C++ compiler
- GDB debugger
- NFS server and client
- A pcnfsd daemon
- X Windows tools and libraries
- Tools for making NFS mountpoints appear as Windows shares, and vice-versa (gateway services)
- An NIS server capability linked with Active Directory (AD)
- Some Windows/Unix authentication information synchronization tools
SFU does not contain (but binaries are available for a separate installation[3]): It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Unix-like. ...
GCC may stand for: Gulf Cooperation Council GNU Compiler Collection (formerly, the GNU C Compiler) Garde côtière canadienne (Canadian Coast Guard) Germanna Community College Glendale Community College global carbon cycle Global Climate Coalition Grand Council of the Crees (gcc. ...
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment by Microsoft. ...
The GNU Debugger, usually called just GDB, is the standard debugger for the GNU software system. ...
Network File System (NFS) is a protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984 and defined in RFCs 1094, 1813, (3010) and 3530, as a file system which allows a computer to access files over a network as easily as if they were on its local disks. ...
In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays. ...
For other meanings of NIS try here. ...
- bash, OpenSSH, sudo, CVS, ClamAV, bzip2, gmake, curl, emacs, Apache, XView, ruby, Tcl, Python
Although X Windows client libraries and applications are provided, SFU does not contain a native X server. A number of third party X servers can be used including WRQ's Reflection X or Hummingbird's Exceed. In addition, StarNet provides a free Win32 X Server designed specifically for local X applications on Windows. Several free software X11 Server implementations are available from X/Cygwin, Xming and X-Deep/32. In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays. ...
In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays. ...
WRQ, Inc. ...
Genera Many, see text. ...
Look up Exceed on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Exceed is a commercial X server that runs under Microsoft Windows. ...
Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed. ...
An X11 implementation for MS Windows based on XFree86. ...
Released versions
Current release is version 3.5 on January, 2004. Next scheduled release is version 5.2 on December, 2005 (for Windows 2003 Server Release 2, aka W2K3/R2, only). Previous version 3.0 released 2002.
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