I was getting ready to test Interix/SFU/SUA under my new computer running Vista Home Premium.  What I found was really disappointing.  There are NO support for SUA under Home Premium.  I looked at this closer and realized that there are no support in any versions of Vista Home along with Vista Business.  Only Enterprise and Ultimate supports SUA.  For those of you who aren't into *nix, you may be asking yourself, "What the hell is SUA?"

Well, SUA stands for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications.  In Windows XP, it was named SFU (Services for UNIX).  This subsystem, Microsoft calls it Interix, allows Windows to easily recompile *nix applications and run it on Windows, natively.  A free alternative to something like this is Cygwin, which is not as well written.  Having installed SFU on XP or enable SUA in Vista, you can have access to powerful shells like bash, or editors like Vim.

I am a rather big fan of the terminal (bash in particular), and Window's cmd.exe lacks the power to do a lot of things.  I personally, have not gotten used to the new Windows Powershell, formerly known as Monad.  Maybe I should start getting used to it, but I am rather comfortable with the linux terminal, especially mrxvt in X.  I may have to start using Cygwin now or use CoLinux while running a X-server.  Or that I can start learning to use Powershell in everyday use.  What should I do?