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Interix is a POSIX-conformant subsystem for the Windows NT operating systems.

Interix (also referred to as Microsoft SFU - Services For Unix) is an optional, POSIX-conformant Unix environment subsystem for Windows NT derived operating systems. Interix is a component of Windows Services for UNIX (SUA), and a superset of the Microsoft POSIX subsystem. Like the POSIX subsystem, Interix is an environment subsystem for the NT kernel. It includes numerous open source utility software programs and libraries.

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What are the practical differences between Interix and Cygwin?

Both Interix and Cygwin appear to provide a Unix-like user environment in Windows. What are the practical differences between the two, in terms of, for example: Unix-like "feel" Performance Package availability/ease in compiling random software…
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Interix/SUA SSH server any good?

There are a lot of homebrew SSH servers (some free, some paid) out there, but I’ve always stuck to Cygwin’s port of OpenSSH because: Despite all of its strange properties, I am familiar with Cygwin, and more likely to know how to debug it when…
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