Windows Services for Unix 3.5 review
Reviews Windows Services for Unix (SFU) is a toolkit designed to allow Unix users to integrate with and migrate to a Windows environment without having to throw away applications, scripts and other familiar tools.
[April 5, 2004, 15:55]
Microsoft embeds Unix tools
News Microsoft plans to build more Unix features into future versions of its Windows Server operating system and cease work on its separate Services For Unix (SFU) product. Historically, Microsoft has provided, in a package known as SFU, software tools...
[September 2, 2005, 9:35]
Microsoft throws free software at the Linux threat
News The company is expected to release on Thursday a new version of Services for Unix (SFU), which is a collection of tools that help Windows systems to work with installations based on the Unix operating system and its open-source derivative, Linux.
[January 14, 2004, 8:10]
Pirate Bay defendants set course for retrial
News Norström is also a member of the Swedish Association of Copyright (SFU) — a group founded in 1954 that hosts seminars and debates, and counts members from the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry...
[April 23, 2009, 15:55]
Microsoft buys Unix partner
News In recent months, the Unix branding and Unix reseller recruitment efforts have taken a back seat to Microsoft's NT Services For Unix (SFU) add-on product. SFU is designed to make NT systems look more like Unix ones.
[September 21, 1999, 15:18]
Microsoft throws free software at the Linux threat
Talkback Do you really believe micosoft is releasing SFU (for FREE) for everyone's benefit? Microsoft is full of it! If you believe that, I've got a real land deal in Florida for you. I recently switched my small business to Suse Linux and everyone seems to...
[January 15, 2004, 4:58]
TechNet Webcast: Introduction to Windows Services for UNIX (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast provides an overview of Microsoft Windows Services For UNIX 3.5 (SFU). SFU provides a full range of supported and fully integrated cross-platform network services to help enterprise customers integrate Windows and UNIX-based environments.
[August 1, 2007, 1:00]
KDE getting ready to go native on Windows
Talkback If you really want Posix for Windows.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp And it's free.
[February 8, 2005, 18:16]
Not as comprehensive or useful as cygwin in many circumstances
Member Review They both deserve a full review and should be evaluated as better alternatives to SFU. You will probably end up using cygwin and SFU rather than SFU alone, even if just to use X. If you are genuinely moving Unix systems to Linux, then there are...
[April 14, 2004, 11:47]
Microsoft Windows 2000 Patch: Memory Leak in Telnet Server
Downloads Among the components provided by Services for Unix (SFU) 2.0 are services that implement the NFS (Network File System) and Telnet protocols. Both services contain memory leaks that could be triggered by a user request.
[July 23, 2001, 8:00]
KDE getting ready to go native on Windows
Talkback SFU -- Shut the F**K up?
[February 21, 2005, 8:03]
TechNet Webcast: Novell Netware and Windows Server 2003 Migration and Interoperability (Level 200)
White Papers It focuses on Services for Netware (SFU) 3.5, and look at the advantages and disadvantages of migration versus synchronization between Active Directory and Novell NetWare. The interoperability and consolidation of systems is a key requirement in...
[August 4, 2008, 0:00]
Unix to Windows Migration and Interoperability - Level 200
White Papers In addition, the session will detail how technologies in Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) can help you port applications and scripts from UNIX to Windows Server 2003, have them run natively on Windows, and have the ability to extend the ported...
[December 10, 2003, 23:00]
TechNet Webcast: Unix to Windows Migration and Interoperability (Level 200)
White Papers In addition, the presenter will detail how technologies in Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) can help to port applications and scripts from UNIX to Microsoft Windows Server 2003, have them run natively on Windows, and have the ability to extend the...
[December 6, 2008, 0:23]
Why Microsoft Had to Support Linux in Virtualisation
Blog In addition, this isn't the first instance of Microsoft redistributing or contributing GPL code; they've done so for years, for their Services for Unix (SFU) product, which reused a non-trivial volume of GPL/GNU code.
[July 21, 2009, 9:13]
