Interix

[Kevin Buettner]

On Oct 6,  1:41pm, Don Harrop wrote:

> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/default.asp
> 
> Has anyone checked out this software for NT systems yet?  It supposedly
> runs a unix shell capable of running unix programs and scripts natively on
> an NT box.  Wonder how well it really does?

I'd like to know too.

I had occasion to try out Cygwin recently and was quite impressed.  It
gives you a terminal window running bash and tools like make, gcc,
gdb, etc. worked as expected.  It's really cool to be able to take
your Unix sources to a windows box and type ``./configure; make'' and
just have it work.

Cygwin is available from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/.