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RE: What do you use SFU/Interix for ? - Nov. 1, '04, 1:05:37 PM

minameismud

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education, locate/updatedb, wowing friends

, fortune

also cron, once i get that working. i am very interested in learning the *nix environment, but i don't have easy access to a full-fledged machine. sfu works nicely. i've also shown some of my friends who are die-hard tux fans that windows can be usable to them.

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RE: What do you use SFU/Interix for ? - Dec. 16, '04, 6:39:35 AM

helloworld

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i use it for developing... i have to still get it exactly like i want it to though...

i am linux kernel hacker but now would like to develop for windows and .net. i have to port my stuff (Which is mostly, rewritten gnu applications - i have my own fvwm, my own screen etc)... So ability to compile code is my primary requirement.

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RE: What do you use SFU/Interix for ? - Dec. 22, '04, 10:13:44 AM

DrPizza

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I'm using it as best as possible as a Linux alternative--to run interesting and/or useful *nix software, and also to ensure that my own output is cross-platform.

I also use it just for things like grep and so on.

As such, the kind of thing I'd like from it in the future is greater API support (my dream would be for Interix to be a full certified SUS UNIX), probably more Linux-style creature comforts (e.g. Linux's /proc goes above and beyond what's typical in /proc, and is much more useful as a consequence), and X.

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RE: What do you use SFU/Interix for ? - Jan. 18, '05, 8:13:09 PM

zjdrew

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quote:

ORIGINAL: DrPizza

As such, the kind of thing I'd like from it in the future is greater API support (my dream would be for Interix to be a full certified SUS UNIX), probably more Linux-style creature comforts (e.g. Linux's /proc goes above and beyond what's typical in /proc, and is much more useful as a consequence), and X.

I'm curious - what APIs from SUS not already in Interix 3.5 would you actually use? There's a lot of crap in UNIX2003 that's there because some DOD wonks insisted Sun and HP support it and thus those two companies forced it into the standard.

And isn't the Interix /proc awfully close to the Linux /proc already? Again, what would you use that's not implemented?

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