[olug] Windows Xserver

[Carl Lundstedt]

On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 00:18 -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> You you really and honestly *need* a Win32 X11 server?
Really, a dig? 
> 
> NX works quite nicely.
I use Cygwin/X on my XP laptop and it works fine.  You may have to
dredge up some knowledge on starting window managers, but other than
that it's easy peasy to set up.  If Cygwin would have been this good 12
years ago I may never have gotten into Linux in the first place.  I'm
glad it took a while to mature.

Carl Lundstedt
UNL

> 
> webtrekker at cox.net wrote:
> > Hi All, Looking for suggestions for a truly free Xserver for
> > M$Windows... My past favorite - Xming - is no longer "free", you have
> > to make a "donation" to download.  I don't mind paying for software,
> > especially software that I find very useful like Xming.  I will
> > probably breakdown and make a "donation",but it just kinda rubs me
> > wrong for a developer to call something "free" only then to charge ya
> > for it. So, really there are two questions here -- a good Xserver for
> > Windows and thoughts on this kind of "free" software.
>