Cygwin's XFree86 4.2.0 on Windows XP

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 7, 2002 @12:29AM 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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How many of you... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-07 00:40 · Score: 3, Funny

...downloaded setup.exe just for the hell of it? :)
1. Re:How many of you... by Disevidence · 2002-07-07 00:48 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Setup.exe us the bomb?
  
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Re:Yes, this is the problem by drinkypoo · 2002-07-07 11:35 · 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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