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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:02:22 -0600, Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2007, at 10:05 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:42:00 -0600, Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx>
> > wrote:
> >> I think you can still get SFU 3.5 from Microsoft.
> >>
> >> Just install the "Interix" component.
>
> > If I may believe http://www.interix.com/ Interix is not *FREE*
>
> If you want your OS free-as-in-speech you lost out as soon as you
> installed Windows. I got Interix free-as-in-beer from Microsoft, and it
> still seems to be there:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/default.mspx
I'll try that, and promise not to complain about it before I tried.
(Unless of course it is about the installation of the missing or
misleading documentation about the installation, might that happen)
> > Worse, all the useful parts have to be bought separate.
>
> I have never purchased anything from Interop Systems. All the useful
> parts I ever need are open source and compile on Interix with minimal
> poking.
I never found this link. All links I found referred to the link I posted
> The only thing missing is an X server (it's got the client libraries),
> and X servers are fungible.
I would love to see KDE running on it :)
(Yes, that is what I run on Cygwin)
> There's several available for Windows, from prices starting as low
> as free, and if all else fails you can use one of the bundled
> just-enough-cygwin-to-run-XFree86 combinations. You don't have to hate
> cygwin directly at all.
>
> You do still have to hate X11 and Win32, but I don't think there's a
> window system in the world that isn't hateful.
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