> 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 would like to make my usually plug for Cygwin right now.. If
functionality is more important over performance, Cygwin is
definitely *the* winner. Also, Cygwin packages are constantly
being upgraded for security reasons.

I am, for instance, running OpenSSH client and server on my XP box
at home. On that  same box I run fetchmail, WU-IMAP, Apache,
Postgresql, etc, etc, etc.  All these are packages built into the
Cygwin install.

Again, the only down side is the Microsoft Services for Unix seems
a little 'faster' in most operations.. not a lot but it is noticeable.
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