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Problem resizing partition



If you need X11 on Windows, a good freeware option is Mocha XServer.
It works well with PuTTY, the ssh client for Windows.  Mocha runs in the
system tray, and runs X11 applications in rootless mode.

    http://www.mochasoft.dk/freeware/x11.htm


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jerry Feldman<gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 06/23/2009 02:54 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
>> There are a couple of other options if you are stuck with a Windows
>> host. ?Cygwin is my first choice for a Unix environment on Windows.
>> Another is coLinux with Cygwin/X.
>>
> Why do you prefer Cygwin or coLinux over using a virtual machine
> (assuming a reasonably powerful computer). Certainly, Cygwin has come a
> long way over the past several years as has Linux and FreeBSD. But, with
> KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, and VMWare available I would probably want a real
> OS rather than an environment, but I have not used Cygwin for a few
> years, and only used it on my wife's machine and in the office where all
> I had was Windows. One advantage of Cygwin might be that you can use it
> to ssh into a Linux/Unix system as an alternative to Exceed.
>
> Actually, Cygwin and other Unix/Linux environments that run under
> Windows could be a reasonable topic for a future meeting. ?Or more
> general topic on Unix/Linus environments for Windows, possibly including
> VMs.
>
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