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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 MoneyMan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The point is that you can sit at any windows machine, which may not necessarily be your own, and have a decent set of utilities to use.

    I personaly work on many machines on any given day. The majority of which I do not own. I'm not "allowed" by my customer to go and just start throwing applications onto their system willy-nilly.

    With this, I can work on any machine, using a shell I know, (bash), have a functional Xserver available, and access to a bajillion other GNU utilities without ever installing a single app.

    Ever needed to tail a file in windows? It's there. Yes, there is a tail app for windows, and it's free. The point here is that this doesn't need to be installed. Grep? same thing.

    Just boot to a LiveCD distro, you say? But I need to see what's happening on this Virii / Spyware ridden hunk o' junk while it's running windows.

    Could I build my own suite? Yeah... but why would I? This has what I need.

    Kudos and my thanks to the Cygwin team.