[ILUG] M$ SFU 3.5 - redistribution and passport?

[Conor Wynne]

>  does anyone have any experience with SFU 3.5 (the
>  free (as in free beer) M$ Services for Unixâ„¢)?:
>
>     http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/
>
>  as per some recent postings of mine, the company
>  I work for is investigating possible alternatives
>  to Cygwin.  SFU seems a possibility.  there are
>  many issues here, but two which are bothering me
>  considerably at the moment are:
>
>   ①  “Passport‟?  I have no idea what this is, but
>      from the reading-up I have been doing on SFU,
>      before downloading it you must have one of
>      these (which is supposedly free).  I myself
>      have *no* interest in _anything_ M$ insists I
>      have, so am extraordinarily reluctant to even
>      download SFU.
>       ⇒ What the fsck is it?
>       ⇒ How can it be neutralized?
>      (I have not yet done any research on what I see
>      as a side-issue, which is also perhaps a private
>      hang-up of mine.)
>

Hmm, I see they have changed it. I have never had an MSN account, thats
part of the passport thing. You can make a mickey mouse passport account
and use that.

Step one, make a webmail account
Step Two, provide bogus details
Step three, use this for all spam sites and downloads etc.

There ya go. Once downloaded you never need it again.


Conor Wynne
Dublin
Irlande.