Editing Interix (section)

==Details==
The complete installation of Interix included (at version 3.5):
* Over 350 [[List of Unix commands|Unix utilities]] such as [[Vi (text editor)|vi]], [[KornShell|ksh]], [[C shell|csh]], [[ls]], [[cat (Unix)|cat]], [[AWK|awk]], [[grep]], [[kill (command)|kill]], etc.
* A complete set of [[Man page|manual pages]] for utilities and APIs
* [[GNU Compiler Collection|GCC]] 3.3 compiler, [[Header file|includes]] and [[Library (computing)|libraries]]
* A cc/c89-like wrapper for [[Microsoft Visual Studio]] command-line C/C++ compiler
* [[GNU Debugger]]
* [[X Window System|X11]] client applications and libraries (no X server included, though third party servers were available)
* Has Unix "[[Toor (BSD)|root]]" capabilities (i.e. [[setuid]] files)
* Has [[POSIX Threads|pthreads]], [[library (computing)#Dynamic linking|shared libraries]], [[Executable and Linkable Format|DSO]]s, [[job control (Unix)|job control]], [[Signal (computing)|signals]], [[Berkeley sockets|sockets]], [[Shared memory (interprocess communication)|shared memory]]

The development environment included support for [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]] and [[Fortran]]. Threading was supported using the Pthreads model.
Additional languages could be obtained ([[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], [[Tcl]], etc.). Unix-based software packaging and build tools were available for installing or creating pre-build software packages.

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* "Mixed mode" for linking Unix programs with Windows DLLs
* [[64-bit]] CPU support (in addition to 32-bit)
* Large file system support on 64-bit systems
* [[UNIX System V|System V]] R4 utilities can be optionally installed instead of the default [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]]-based utilities
* [[Microsoft Visual C++|MSVC]] debugging plug-in
* Database (OCI/[[ODBC]]) library connectivity

With release 6.0 (Vista and Server 2008) the following new features were added:
* [[IPv6]] support for socket APIs and daemons
* Updates to utilities for additional functionality
* MSVC debugging plug-in enhanced

Interix release 6.0 for [[Windows Vista|Vista]] was only available with the [[Windows Vista Ultimate|Ultimate]] and [[Windows Vista editions#Windows Vista Enterprise|Enterprise]] editions.

Interix release 6.1 was available for [[Windows Server 2008 R2]] and [[Windows 7]] for the Enterprise and Ultimate editions.