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Re: Free XServer for windows, and a firewall question



Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
[...]
> BTW: The only other free X server for win32 is XFree, when compiled with
> cygwin: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/ IIRC. Installation is not
> exactly trivial, though (from what I heard. I haven't tried it yet)

Tzafrir,

Installation of Cygwin/Xfree86 *used* to be non-trivial, but now it's
pretty simple.
All you have to do is to install Cygwin (one click from the cygwin
site), and then untar the Xfree binary archives.
I use it at our company to access a Linux server from Windows, and it
works perfectly. Especially compared to what we used in the past
(vncviewer+Xvnc... slow!).
I can certainly recommend Cygwin/XFree for production environments.

Gavrie.

-- 
Gavrie Philipson
Netmor Applied Modeling Research Ltd.

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