On Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:57 AM, 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've been using Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX on my Windows 2000
workstation for a month or so. I REALLY like having access to a Korn shell
when I'm stuck in Windows. Hitting Esc-K to get to my command history is
almost as natural to me as breathing. And not having to re-type "dir" after
mistakenly typing "ls" saves me tens of seconds each day!! And as far as I
know, this software doesn't make my Windows machine any more (or less)
insecure than it already was.
Wait-- I just re-read your message. Do you want to install this on Solaris?
Because according to Microsoft's site (and the CD sleeve I have here), this
software only runs on Windows.
~Jeff
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