From mlchang@u.washington.edu Tue Oct 1 09:43:52 2002 Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g91GhoFD113476 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:43:50 -0700 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Tue Oct 01 09:43:49 2002 -0700 Received: from maxwell.ee.washington.edu (maxwell.ee.washington.edu [128.95.42.10]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g91GhndY032116 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:43:49 -0700 Received: from brain.ee.washington.edu (brain.ee.washington.edu [128.95.30.70]) by maxwell.ee.washington.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g91GhmUm001065 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:43:48 -0700 Received: (from mchang@localhost) by brain.ee.washington.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g91GhmF25041 for linux@u.washington.edu; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:43:48 -0700 From: "Mark L. Chang" To: UW Linux Group Subject: Re: [OT] Recommend X Server for M$ Windoze? Message-ID: <20021001094348.C24767@brain.ee.washington.edu> References: <20020930142502.A24015@hurston.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020930142502.A24015@hurston.org>; from rowdenw@hurston.org on Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:25:02PM -0700 X-EE-Scanned: by amavisd-milter A buddy used the cygwin-X stuff and said it worked, but wasn't slick. I don't know if it had rootless-X or not. I've used XWin32 and liked it a lot. At least in the version I had (from three years ago), it was not crufty at all, and just plain old worked. SSH-forwarded X connections worked, too. You just started it, and it appeard in the taskbar, voila, you have an X server. No splash screen, no weirdo anything. I liked that. LabF makes WinaXe. I used that at the last place I worked at and it worked just dandy as well. Similar to XWin32, but seemed more full-featured, with integrated TCP/IP services, such as Finger, Ping, etc... but hey, who really needs that. Another option is to use VNC. There are patches that allow you to export a single X window to a VNC client (through a VNC server). Otherwise, just run an entire VNC server for each user... works quite well, but doesn't really scale well. On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:25:02PM -0700 or thereabouts, William C. Rowden wrote: > [1] http://sources.redhat.com/win32-x11/ > [2] http://wiredx.net/services.php > [3] http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/ > [4] http://www.microimages.com/ > [5] http://www.frontiertech.com/Product/SuperX/product_details.asp > [6] http://www.starnet.com/products/ > [7] http://www.labf.com/ > [8] http://www.labtam-inc.com/index.php?act=products&pid=11 > [9] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ -- www.mchang.org | www.acmelab.org | decss.zoy.org .