Running Wine under MS SFU under Wine ... ?
I recently posted with problems running Microsoft's Services for Unix under Wine. I only tried it out of morbid curiosity, actually, and because MS was offering it for free. The free offer expired, but it's back again for a little while; slashdot.org seems to be running banner ads for it. I'd encourage any of you who even *might* be tempted to try this out to go order the CD-ROM. It would be way bitchin' cool if we could nest Wine and MS SFU (I seem to recall we can't nest Wine in Cygwin for some technical reason, but who knows, maybe SFU won't have the same problem). - Dan
On Sunday 14 December 2003 09:02 pm, Dan Kegel wrote:
I recently posted with problems running Microsoft's Services for Unix under Wine. I only tried it out of morbid curiosity, actually, and because MS was offering it for free. The free offer expired, but it's back again for a little while; slashdot.org seems to be running banner ads for it. I'd encourage any of you who even *might* be tempted to try this out to go order the CD-ROM. It would be way bitchin' cool if we could nest Wine and MS SFU (I seem to recall we can't nest Wine in Cygwin for some technical reason, but who knows, maybe SFU won't have the same problem). - Dan
Don't get your hopes up; they are nothing to write home about. -- gmt "It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore, establishing the Constitution, will not be a NATIONAL, but a FEDERAL act." --James Madison, Federalist No. 39
On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:05 pm, I wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2003 09:02 pm, Dan Kegel wrote:
I recently posted with problems running Microsoft's Services for Unix under Wine. I only tried it out of morbid curiosity, actually, and because MS was offering it for free. The free offer expired, but it's back again for a little while; slashdot.org seems to be running banner ads for it. I'd encourage any of you who even *might* be tempted to try this out to go order the CD-ROM. It would be way bitchin' cool if we could nest Wine and MS SFU (I seem to recall we can't nest Wine in Cygwin for some technical reason, but who knows, maybe SFU won't have the same problem). - Dan
Don't get your hopes up; they are nothing to write home about.
Perhaps I spoke too soon, although when I evaluated this long ago, it was probably true. MS has acquired (license to?) Interix and SFU3.5 is based on it; it is now available for download from Microsoft for free, I do not think it's supposed to be a limited-time offer this time. I recently learned that SFU (3.5, at least) is actually a Windows "subsystem," which supposedly should mean that it is not a compatibility layer like cygwin implemented on top of the Windows API. Could be fun, I definitely will give it a whorl presently... -- gmt "It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore, establishing the Constitution, will not be a NATIONAL, but a FEDERAL act." --James Madison, Federalist No. 39
Hello Greg, --- "Gregory M. Turner" <gmturner007(a)ameritech.net> wrote:
I recently learned that SFU (3.5, at least) is actually a Windows "subsystem," which supposedly should mean that it is not a compatibility layer like cygwin implemented on top of the Windows API. Could be fun, I definitely will give it a whorl presently...
I attempted a port of WINE to SFU a while back and it should work as well as the Cygwin port would once we get Get/SetThreadContext supported implemented for the Cygwin case. There were some issues I had at the time getting configure running with ksh and then with conflicing types in msvcrt. All in all there were no major showstoppers except the same problems as the Cygwin port which is time....... Thanks Steven PS. OpenNT the first incarnation of SFU/Interix was based on Cygwin. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
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