Re: [PLUG] Fw: X-Win32 V9: The Ultimate PC X Server!

[bergman@merctech.com]

In the message dated: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:43:06 EDT,
The pithy ruminations from Matthew Rosewarne on 
<Re: [PLUG] Fw: X-Win32 V9: The Ultimate PC X Server!> were:
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=> On Friday 26 October 2007, bergman@merctech.com wrote:
=> > We use X-Win32 pretty heavily here at $WORKPLACE, and I'm quite fond of i=
=> t.
=> > If you've got to run Windows, and you need an X server, X-Win32 is a good
=> > choice. I've used Cygwin-X (which would probably be my personal choice),
=> > but it requires a lot of maintenance and support...more than I want to do
=> > for a whole bunch of Windows desktops. X-Win32 is a very clean, fast X
=> > Server, and the company is quite responsive to feature requests & bug
=> > reports. Their development/release cycle is very fast too.
=> 
=> Besides cygwin-X, there's also the vastly easier Xming, from Freedesktop.or=

[Gong!] Yep, that's the name of the other package...I recommend Xming to people 
for their personal machines (ie., where the lab's license of X-Win32 doesn't 
apply). When I composed my mail this morning on the train, I couldn't access 
our internal Wiki to get the package name...thanks for the reminder.

However, there was something about Xming that didn't play nicely in our 
environmnet...possibly an issue with displaying one of our ancient in-house 
Irix apps, or with requiring a lot of client side fonts...something that would 
have made the installation more difficult than using XWin32.

=> g. =20
=> It's a port of Xorg to Windows, and it can use putty to run X11 over SSH.  =
=> It=20
=> doesn't need cygwin or anything like that, since it's self-contained.  Come=
=> s=20
=> with a decent launcher GUI too.
=> 
=> http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
=> 
=> > X-Win32 v9 looks like it has some really nifty features. Essentially, it's
=> > a VNC service that's integrated with the X-Win32 client. Unfortunately, we
=> > won't be taking advantage of most of those new features, as they require a
=> > new server-side daemon. That's something I'm not yet ready to install.
=> >
=> > I am very interested in hearing from people who've actually deployed the
=> > "Live server" side of X-Win32 v9.
=> 
=> Is that at all related to NX?  It sounds a lot like the kind of thing NX ha=
=> s=20
=> been doing.

I dunno.


=> 
=> http://www.nomachine.com/
=> http://freenx.berlios.de/
=> 

Mark


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