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There was also SFU which was a first party “BSD on Windows” I had to use it in the past and it’s genuinely awful. MobaXterm was the best before WSL (imo) http

by pram 3y ago

There was also SFU which was a first party “BSD on Windows” I had to use it in the past and it’s genuinely awful. MobaXterm was the best before WSL (imo) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

scruffyherder 3y ago
SFU replaced the posix subsystem with an OpenBSD port and more capable thing for NT/2000 etc. SFU was so much later to the game, while BOW ran on Windows 3.1 which would have been great had it had far bigger appeal as you could just run it on such lesser machines. The best part being no formatting, no device drivers, or changes to the OS at all. I just copied over to my PS/2, and was playing hack 1.03 in no time.
toast0 3y ago
Hey. Microsoft's SFU[1] is alive and well, back when I was running servers getting DDoSed by chargen reflection, as far as I can tell, most of the reflectors were running chargen from SFU. [1] Well, Microsoft published it, but IIRC, another company developed it.
- pram 3y ago
  You mean like a botnet installed SFU on peoples machines? lol
  - toast0 3y ago
    Well, I don't know how it got installed, just that it was installed, so when the DDoS origin spoofed requests to the SFU hosts with my server's IP as the source, the SFU hosts were happy to send me garbage.
EvanAnderson 3y ago
I had good luck compiling and running command line apps on SFU (nee Interix) back in the early 2000's. GNU autoconf had (has?) support for Interix as a target. I always wanted a distribution of Windows that booted character mode and ran the Interix userland.
- mise_en_place 3y ago
  Back in those days I often used coLinux and Interix. Cygwin was also an option, but I found that MinGW was just a way better option when it came out.
tssva 3y ago
There was also UWIN which came from David Korn and ATT. It is available as open source at https://github.com/att/uwin/ https://github.com/att/uwin/.

by pram 3y ago

scruffyherder 3y ago

SFU replaced the posix subsystem with an OpenBSD port and more capable thing for NT/2000 etc. SFU was so much later to the game, while BOW ran on Windows 3.1 which would have been great had it had far bigger appeal as you could just run it on such lesser machines. The best part being no formatting, no device drivers, or changes to the OS at all. I just copied over to my PS/2, and was playing hack 1.03 in no time.

toast0 3y ago

Hey. Microsoft's SFU[1] is alive and well, back when I was running servers getting DDoSed by chargen reflection, as far as I can tell, most of the reflectors were running chargen from SFU. [1] Well, Microsoft published it, but IIRC, another company developed it.

pram 3y ago
You mean like a botnet installed SFU on peoples machines? lol
- toast0 3y ago
  Well, I don't know how it got installed, just that it was installed, so when the DDoS origin spoofed requests to the SFU hosts with my server's IP as the source, the SFU hosts were happy to send me garbage.

EvanAnderson 3y ago

I had good luck compiling and running command line apps on SFU (nee Interix) back in the early 2000's. GNU autoconf had (has?) support for Interix as a target. I always wanted a distribution of Windows that booted character mode and ran the Interix userland.

mise_en_place 3y ago
Back in those days I often used coLinux and Interix. Cygwin was also an option, but I found that MinGW was just a way better option when it came out.

tssva 3y ago

There was also UWIN which came from David Korn and ATT. It is available as open source at https://github.com/att/uwin/ https://github.com/att/uwin/.