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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. Developing free software for WIndows is a dead end by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why do this? this defeats the purpose of free software. All it's doing is providing workarounds for people using windows and is yet another excuse for people not to dump windows. I don't see how linux would stand for this.

    here is a summary that is very articulate, more so than I can put it here in a comment.

  2. Wow. by master_p · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow. Such an impressive piece of software! now you can run X-Windows applications everywhere: no more cut-copy-paste! no more context menus in text boxes! yeah! no more integrated drag-n-drop! that's real progress!

    (yes I am (almost) flamebaiting, but with a reason: most Universities have lots of unix machines available for students. Why should I carry a whole CD with me, when unix boxes are available? using X-Windows from home over a 56K line is an ...awesome experience, while any student that wants X-Windows on a MS Windows box will put the X-Server on the hard disk. What is SO cool that justifies a Slashdot story with running an X-Server from a CD anyway?)