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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