[Discuss] an "Enterprise" Linux for desktop

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

For lightweight X11 on Windows, I personally prefer the free Mochasoft
X11 server. It's only a basic X server component, as far as I've seen,
but it plays well with PuTTY for doing X from ssh sessions.

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

When you run Mocha, it just quietly starts up as a service in the
Windows system tray. Definitely much simpler to work with than
Hummingbird or Cygwin/X.

I've never checked out Mocha's capabilities beyond using it from PuTTY,
so I can't say what extra capabilities Hummingbird provides that Mocha
does not.


On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Ricker, William <William.Ricker at fmr.com> wrote:
> If I were going to have a '"Enterprise" Linux for desktop' at the office, I'd likely use a Fedora variant to match the RHEL/OEL/CENTOS on the servers. (As a numbers guy, likely Scientific would be my first choice. I can wish.) As long as I have Putty/Perl/Ack I'm happy. (though sometimes Hummingbird X and MKS TK or Cygwin is handy surviving on a corp desktop.)
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> For home use, I'm rolling out the LXDE based LUBUNTU variant on the most limited laptops first, we'll see how I like that. Have also bookmarked a How-To to replace Unity with traditional shell which should make regular Ubuntu usable. If I got totally alienated, I'd check out Mint and other Debian or Ubuntu derived distros.
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