[ale] Cygwin Or...?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Feb 25 18:26:02 EST 2003


Cygwin has an X server that is pretty good. Back in 2001, I was running
Xfce in a Win2k box and using that to connect to other HP-UX machines
for X applications. 

Vnc might be a different avenue to explore. It can be used to remotely
run anything on any box from any platform and can do it over ssh.

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 17:21, hbbs at attbi.com wrote:
> Suppose I want to deploy a Linux GUI app (let's say MrProject, an X11/Gnome 
> app) and my user base is already set up on Win2K.  What are my rollout options 
> given that I must retain the Win2K clients?  
> 
> I've been looking at Cygwin and it seems that it might be a piece of the 
> puzzle; at the moment, though, I am willing to entertain either running the app 
> centrally or independently on each client machine.  I want to minimize the 
> impact at the desktop level (i.e., dropping a desktop icon on everyone's screen 
> is preferable to performing an app install at every client machine).
> 
> Assume furthermore that I am not interested in buying X server software for 
> each client and that each user should be able to run an independent instance of 
> the app (as opposed to several people contending for the same instance).
> 
> - Jeff
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