[rescue] Re: first real server hardware

ssandau at gwi.net ssandau at gwi.net
Fri Apr 16 13:04:11 CDT 2004


>>I'll probably end up using either linux or freebsd on one of my x86
>>boxes. But it sounds like Cygwin has gotten a lot more advanced since
>>the last time I used it. Someone told me that Dia and Gimp 2 will run as
>>well as several others. Would be nice for my one or two 2k boxes.
> 
> 
> Cygwin and Cygwin/X make a nice complement to Win2K, and the X stuff is
> quite OK.  The good news is that most of it works quite well, and it's
> improving.  The bad news is they update something almost every day, so any
> time you install the latest stuff, it breaks something.
> 

If you are familiar with the exporting of displays and such (I know we 
all are, but not everyone else is...) MicorImages MI/X is easy, simple, 
lightweight, precompiled and free. It just provides a basic X server on 
your Windows box...

Steve



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