On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:37:04AM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:34 +1000, Minh Van Le wrote:
> > I've been browsing at some Unix interoperability programs and emulators like
> > Cygwin, Windows Services for Unix (SFU), coLinux, Uwin, VMWare etc.
> > 
> > My quick question is, Is Windows Services for Unix (SFU) better than Cygwin
> > ?
> 
> No,  yes,  I give up.
> 
> Cygwin is Unix on the desktop,  I have built production systems in it

How provides the support on the cygwin environment - how have you gone about 
selling the cygwin to the company ?

> that worked great and could be moved onto a real operating system later.
> Cygwin has overheads in disk IO and therefore may be slow in certain
> circumstances though I have never experienced it, it is good enough for
> me.
> 
> We use Windows Unix components to create NFS exports to Unix and it
> works great.
> 
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> Ken Foskey
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