I assume you meant "prototype" servers when you mentioned Win32?
I don't actually know of any Windows servers being used in a production
environment. I'm sure it would be in violation of some shrink-wrap
license, or Microsoft reserves the right to sue you or something along
those lines.
Assuming you've read and signed the "I know, I know, it's not a good
idea to run a production Windows server but I like cheating death and
the thought of uncontrolled & unknown security issues doesn't scare me"
disclaimer... , and you really want to make that machine run like it has
a real OS on it, then you should definitely install Cygwin.
Once Cygwin is installed, you can quickly get a bash shell with just
about every piece of software you have on Linux. The Cygwin installer
is real nice, will resolve dependencies for you and currently it can
install (at least) the following Windows ports:
XFree86,Mysql,Apache,sendmail,perl,php,python,curl,wget,ncftp,awk,sed,grep,tar
as well as the whole file-utils set (might include find and locate) and
much more.
www.cygwin.com
hint: when you are in the "Select Packages" screen of the installer,
although it doesn't look like a resizable window, resize it - it makes
life much easier.
On 08Mar2007 10:40AM (-0800), Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote:
> I'm really addicted to lots of the coreutils
>
> Has anyone really tested out any Win32 ports on production servers?
>
> "locate" is one tool that I really wish I had sometimes.
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