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Cygwin's XFree86 4.2.0 on Windows XP

Posted by timothy on from the so-who's-using-it dept.

stock writes: "A interesting and important piece of software on the win32 platform for me has always been X11 server software like Hummingbird's Exceed, or Startnet's Xwin32 Professional. Today i glanced at cygwin's site and found that a complete XFree86 4.2.0 for Windows XP can be downloaded now! It shouldn't be hard for newcomers as it features a setup.exe . The package comes free and is basicly licensed as X style licensed software which runs on cygwin32 which has a GPL license." Looks like this has been out since May -- can anyone who's been using it since then comment on how well it works? Update: 07/07 17:12 GMT by T : haroldhunt (project leader for Cygwin/XFree86) wrote to clarify: "Cygwin/XFree86 runs on all recent consumer and business versions of Windows; as of 2002-05-12 those versions are specifically Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP."

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  1. There's no need to post a mirror list!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    WTF are you posting a mirror list, when Cygwin's setup.exe downloads it AUTOMATICALLY? The only purpose of your post seems to be karma whoring. A poor karma whore at that, seeing as how you didn't use any list or anchor tags. Moderators, mod this guy into oblivion.

  2. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you want to use a shitty GUI, just install Linux. This is like running Windows98 with a DOS prompt running full screen all day ... it is stupid.