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  1. Re:Ubuntu or bash? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Ubuntu Is Now Available On the Windows Store (windowscentral.com)

    Neither of those are X.org.

    Xming is cross-compiled on Linux for Microsoft Windows, using MinGW-w64, mostly from canonical X.Org source code with my patches applied.

    Emphasis added.

  2. Re:"Satan get thee behind me" Jeremiah Cornelius by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1 · on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For

    Of course.

    I used Cygwin the whole time I was at M$... And I used Interix/SFU/SUA or whatever they called it, after there was a whole Deb distro ported.

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=274

    http://debian-interix.net/

    Looks like the Deb stopped updating in 2009. I would have been using it until 2010. It worked, with a XMingX server - which I preferred over CygwinX.
    http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

  3. Re:Rootless X11 by realityimpaired · · Score: 1 · on After a Decade, Mac Sales Again Top 10%

    Actually I do have an X11 server running on my Windows workstation... largely so I can SSH with X forwarding and open X apps remotely. It's called Xming, and it's free software.

    Interestingly, those X11 apps I run through SSH inherit the window decorations from Windows, because there's a difference between a Window Manager and an X11 server. If I change the window decorations, then those changes get inherited by X11 apps as well. Amazingly, that's exactly how it's supposed to work, and the GP is an idiot for not realizing the difference between an X server and a Window manager.

  4. X server by iceaxe · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Distro For Computational Cluster?

    I'll leave the clustering distro advice to others, but if I understand your needs regarding X-windows, what you need is an X server running on your windows (or other ) client machine so that the program running on the cluster can display on your desktop/laptop. The X programs may need appropriate libraries, but you don't need an X server running on the cluster.

    See Xming for a good, free, open source X server for windows. There are other options available, but that's what I use, and find it to be stable and reliable. (For a Windows program... )

    Then use putty to SSH to your cluster, with X11 forwarding to your locally running X server.

  5. SSH (PuTTY) + XMING by Karem+Lore · · Score: 1 · on Persistent Terminals For a Dedicated Computing Box?
    Just use ssh with X forwarding through to your box with an XMING (if using windows, or any linux bbox can do this) windows server running on your workstation. Advantage: no xserver running on your crunch machine, good security, simple setup.putty -http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Xming - http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

    You can use screen for your persistance...

    Karem

  6. Re:My one experience with Vista by Zantetsuken · · Score: 2, Informative · on PC Makers Offering a Bridge Back To XP

    You guys might wanna check out Xming. It's a standalone X server compiled for Windows, so you'll still need to use something like PuTTY. I haven't tried it on Vista, but it hasn't crashed once on me in XP - it does at least claim Vista support, but again, I can't say about that. One of the good things I like about it is it doesn't have any Cygwin dependencies. The other thing I like about Xming is that unlike some of the commercial X servers for Win32 I looked through (Hummingbird Exceed, etc) is that this is free (as in beer, and AFAIK, speech)...

  7. Re:At a little over a meg... by Zantetsuken · · Score: 1 · on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software
    And then if you get Xming, you can tunnel your Linux apps over to your Windows client. The reasons Xming is superior to Cygwin/X for minimal installations is:
    • A: It actually gets updated (the last time Cygwin/X was updated was summer of 2005)
    • B: What if I don't want the entire Cygwin package? Xming is packaged nicely into a typical exe installer Windows users are familiar with.
    Also, unless the applications you want to use with Xming have any odd special requirements, it saves you from having to pay for something like Hummingbird Exceed...
  8. Re:CoLinux by CrankyOldBastard · · Score: 1 · on VM Enables 'Write-Once, Run Anywhere' Linux Apps

    I use XMing ( http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ )- it,s not much good for a full blown XDCMP with gnome, but works very well for most work. Its much leaner and faster than using Cygwin.

  9. Re:Does Linux Count? by Fweeky · · Score: 1 · on Do You Get a UNIX Workstation at Work?

    Xming seems pretty good; X.org + patches compiled with MinGW. I've not had any problems with it so far. Exceed I found rather clunky, but the last time I used it was several years ago.

  10. Re:These aren't the big issues at all by xtracto · · Score: 1 · on Is Ubuntu a Serious Desktop Contender?

    Hi, a bit late but you might find this info useful.

    If you want a similar functionality on Windows as SSH + X (run any linux app on a Windows client) you can use Xming Putty Xming is a small X-window server and Putty is an SSH client app. Both are open source and work really nice (I used to use it when working from home on my XP machine).

    HTH

  11. Run with JavaScript enabled, OK? by leonbrooks · · Score: 1 · on Zero-Day IE Exploit In the Wild

    Just don't do it using MSIE.

    Simple, eh?

    Of the 4 browsers I have here, all are safer in JavaScript than MSIE (FireFox, SeaMonkey, Opera, Konqueror). Three of those are easily available for 'doze & even Konqueror can be made to work in it.

    Er... sorry, I also have lynx, links & w3m available, plus Galeon and a few other GNOMEish built-ins kicking around. Spoilt for choice!