“Recently I found something cool running inside Grand Central
Networks’ lab. A buddy had become tired of my constant Linux
carping and had downloaded something new: Interix. “This nukes
Linux and NT,” he gloated.”
“Softway Systems Inc. invented Interix (www.interix.com) to
offer IT managers a better way to integrate Unix and NT. Interix
appropriates the POSIX.1 module that ships with the base NT
package. In its place, Softway drops Interix, which includes the
Interix platform, the shell and Telnet.”
“Softway System’s next argument is money-based. Unix-on-RISC is
expensive and proprietary. Linux is free but is still difficult to
use and requires significant work to manage an application port.
That Unix-on-RISC is too expensive, I can’t deny. But will Interix
be able to tie or beat that performance, especially in high-end
applications such as rendering or CAD, while still coming in at a
fraction of the cost? Certainly for some applications but not all
of them. And while Linux may run separate from NT, NT costs money,
whereas Linux is free. Further, Linux’s hardware requirements are
significantly less than NT’s. Does Interix take that away? No.”