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by avian 3923 days ago
Interesting. I didn't know they had a replacement after they dumped the POSIX kernel personality in Windows XP.

Wikipedia says that "Interix will not be included in Windows versions after Windows 8" though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix

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...that page cites one of my projects as a reference? May all the gods have mercy on our souls...

Yeah, it's obviously been destaffed at Microsoft. There's a blog, last updated years ago. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sfu/

I know it's likely to be impossible, but if anyone at Microsoft's reading this (and chances are they are), whacking all the source code up on codeplex or github would be awesome. It worked so, so much better than Cygwin.