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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. > > -- > Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id: 537C5846 > PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB ?CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr-iMZfmuK6BGBxLiRVyXs8+g at public.gmane.org / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99
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