Cygwin's XFree86 4.2.0 on Windows XP

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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Xfree86

[invisi]

I haven't used it myself, as I use linux here for my machine. But someone I know, I helped them install it onto their machine, and we got it running xdmcp over the network to a linux box, making a quick X-terminal. It seems to work fairly well.

hrm

[outz]

I always knew the Xfree devs were pot smokers
hence the 4.2.0.