On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Michael Henry wrote:

> My boss has asked me to review Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX. We
> are actually running Solaris8, but figure this is a good place to start.
> Personally I am opposed to installing anything Windows on my box, for
> security reasons alone. We all know Microsoft is most vulnerable to
> attacks for whatever reason anyone would like to choose. I did a search
> for articles on google and only came up with three issues that were
> dated October 2002. Has anyone had any experience with this software,
> that could bolster my argument against installing it. It appears that It
> only supports C shell and K shell, and all of my end users use bourne, I
> use bash so I already have one argument. I need more though. Any help
> would be apprecieated.

I don't run Interix.

But there is preliminary support for Interix for pkgsrc.

pkgsrc is a portable package building system for Linux, NetBSD, Darwin,
Mac OS X, Irix, SunOS/Solaris, AIX, HPUX, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, Windows and
other operating systems for managing nearly 5000 software suites. It
provides: 1) a categorized collection of specifications that help automate
fetching, checking checksums, patching, configuring, building, installing
and packaging software suites; 2) package installation and maintenance
tools (like pkg_add, pkg_info, pkg_delete and others).

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html

If you are looking for a wide variety of third-party, popular Unix
applications (like bash), pkgsrc under Interix might be what you need.

I am a pkgsrc developer and maintainer and can help you if needed.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

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