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to: Adam Flinton
from: Jeff Shultz
date: 2004-01-14 18:10:54
subject: Re: SFU 4 free?

From: Jeff Shultz 

Adam Flinton wrote:

> http://news.com.com/2100-1016-5140237.html
>
> "Microsoft plans to broaden its attack on Linux and related operating
> systems this week by giving away a set of tools for migrating
> applications to Windows.
>
> The company is expected to release on Thursday a new version of Services
> for Unix (SFU), a collection of tools that help Windows systems to work
> with installations based on the Unix operating system and its
> open-source derivative, Linux.
>
> Microsoft previously charged $99 per client or server to use SFU. But
> the new version, 3.5, will be free for any customer using a current
> Windows operating system. "
>

Wheeee! I want NFS on my Windows2k box.... Samba hasn't been working with
it since the Mandrake 9.2 upgrade (but worked fine with a Win98SE box I had
running temporarily).

I can get around it one way with LinNeighborhood, but I want to see my
Linux box from Windows again.

--
Jeff Shultz

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