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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. How many of you... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...downloaded setup.exe just for the hell of it? :)

    1. Re:How many of you... by Disevidence · · Score: 3, Funny

      Setup.exe us the bomb?

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  2. linux running win4lin running cygin by mrycar · · Score: 2, Funny

    I use it on my linux environment to create a windowed X session to one of my other UNIX boxes. I haven't been ambitious enough to locate another solution to create non ctr-alt F-key session bopping in XFree. Redhat linux, running win4lin, in less then fullscreen mode. Then launch an Xsession under cygwin to one of my other linux boxes. Tada running multiple UNIX and linux boxes on the same display. Yup, its an oddball solution, but it works.

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  3. Re:Yes, this is the problem by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny
    Too bad I'm not a programmer (well, I can code, but not in C, and not that well) and I am flat-ass broke. In fact, I'm not really flat broke, I'm in substantial debt.

    I think I'll just complain. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

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