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X Windows server for MS Windows?



At 07:03 AM 4/10/01 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>I've used both hummingbird, excursion and XonNet. I currently use Excursion
>at work because our hummingbird licences expired. In any case, excursion
>has been working fine for me on Windows2000 (which I would convert to Linux
>if I could find a decent replacement for MS Project.

VMWare will fill the task very nicely. Of course, you'll still need a 
Windoze license but you seem to have that requirement fufilled already. 
I've also heard good things about Win4Lin, but never used it. Would one of 
these suit your needs?

>Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> > Hello to all:
> >
> > I am looking for an X Server for NT 4 and Win2k.   I want to pipe some ssh
> > sessions with X forwarding to my Microsoft boxes.   I have a few machines
> > connected to a Linksys 8-port dsl/cable router/gateway with ssh
> > forwarding.
> >
> > I've tried working with xwindemo and some other free/shareware X Servers.
> > I have installed Cygwin and obtained XFree86 in hopes of trying to compile
> > it.
> >
> > I would ultimately like to have a reliable X Server running as a
> > background app (similar to Humingbird), without breaking the bank (as this
> > is for home/educational/experimentation purposes).
> >
> > Thanks much.
> >
> > Scott
> >
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>Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
>Boston Linux and Unix user group
>http://www.blu.org
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