Millan wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 May 2007 21:14:09 Greg Ercolano wrote:
>> I have Vista here; had to buy it for testing, and to anticipate
>> customers who will eventually jump on it. $399 USD! Grr.
>> Well, at least the compiler is now free ;) But I can tell you
>> Vista is NOT worth $400.
>
> Another offtopic, sorry :) Is it true that (I guess "Ultimate") version
> has "gcc" and other stuff with it (but not "bash" and "ksh" instead) on DVD,
> which works with no virtualization on Vista?
Actually I misspoke: I ended up getting Business Edition ($299),
not Ultimate ($399).
BTW, you can get all that Microsoft unix stuff for free with
'Services For Unix'. Been out for many years now. Just search
microsoft.com for 'Services For Unix'. They ask for some info
from you, but the dl is free.
It includes NFS, unix shells, make, perl, awk, all that stuff.
Used to cost ~$100, then they made it 'free' about a year or two ago,
so I downloaded it and poked at it a bit. Big download.
Some oddball stuff about Vista from my notes:
o DOS still can't CD to a UNC path
o telnet disappeared (you can turn it on via the control
panel|programs..)
o rcp/rsh clients disappeared (not sure if you can turn them
on, didn't check)
o wordpad still gives 'command not found' in DOS.. what's up
with that?
One thing I noticed, I think NFS comes with Vista Business..
I noticed there was this item in the control panel:
Control Panel|Programs|Turn Windows features on/off|Services For NFS
I didn't poke much at Vista much, and rarely boot it up.
Only to test my software, exercise it, shutdown.
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