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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. Re:I don't get it. by BrynM · · Score: 5, Informative
    What is the point?
    Consider these ideas:
    • Take a CD to work and use X on any machine with a CD drive
    • Use this as a framework to add more applications like dev tools, auditing tools or desktop apps (probably forking the project, but interesting)
    • Use it to prove to the ill tempered that *Nix is not all bad and quite usable
    • Find a way to port it to Flash drives and such
    • Another valid use of BitTorrent :D (the download of this iso that is)
    Remember that this is an early version. The best uses are to come probably.
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