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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 > 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. The only thing missing is an X server (it's got the client libraries), and X servers are fungible. 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.There's stuff above here
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