microsoft windows services for linux

[Guy Dawson]

kitsune wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:23:52 -0500
> mjoyner <mjoyner at vbservices.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Windows Services for Unix is a compatibility layer that runs on
>>>Linux to allow legacy Win32 applications to be compiled and used
>>>on Linux. For applications which cannot be compiled, it features
>>>an emulation package similar to WINE, but with all of the hidden
>>>APIs implemented and with support for .NET web services.
>>>Additionally, it also features a suite of GUI-based Linux
>>>administration tools patterned off the GUI applications used to
>>>configure Windows 2000.
>>
>>Anyone tried to get this Microsoft beast running?
> 
> 
> Where did you grab that from?  I all ways thought it was something to
> give Windows a more unix like enviroment, like cygwin does...

It is. It's a POSIX subsystem for Windows. MS hope it will encourage
programs to be ported from UNIX(tm etc) to Windows.

> I downloaded the free 3.5 one lately, and did not see any thing about
> it running on linux.

I think the OP has got it back to front...

Guy
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