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XLiveCD: Cygwin and X For Windows On A Live CD

Posted by timothy on from the animated-plastic dept.

mallumax writes "OSnews is running a story on XliveCD which runs an X server (from X.org) from the CD using Cygwin. Also included are awk, sed, perl, vim, bash, grep, other text utilities, and most importantly an OpenSSH client. XliveCD is being developed by University Technology Services of Indiana University. Now you can carry Cygwin with you! I have been looking for something like this for a long time. Torrent link."

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  1. Wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doesn't running this on Windows defeat the purpose of it existing? Unix... On windows... Does not compute... Can't stop... ... ... Help...

  2. meta nit-picking by palad1 · · Score: 2, Funny
    You have the client-server relationship wrong, a common mistake when talking about X windows.

    You have the spelling wrong, a common mistake when talking about X Window.

    now please correct my grammar ;)