cygwin rocks!!!

[Stef]

I installed cygwin (www.cygwin.com) on my Windows 98 PC (128MB RAM/233MMX). It's a UNIX environment emulator for Windows, with it you can do many things :D

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/ssrdic/cygwin.JPG

It's neat being able to run a native Xwindow server and have the windowmanager and apps served through a tunnel :D

It ran a little slow, but I've got old PC's and cheap network cards. I'd imagine with good PC's this would be real great.

cygwin's XWindows comes with twm only. On the site they say they've got Gnome 1.4 and KDE 2.2 binaries. Once they get more lighweight window managers things should speed up.

I've heard that on Mac OSX Xwindows can run rootless! Xwindow apps can be on a MAC desktop without being restricted to a root window.

Just a couple more grand.....

Stef

[Stef]

Don't make me post abother screen shot or anything :D

Stef

[master7]

I thought it was cool.... :D

[Stef]

I've been experimenting with cygwin more recently. I've found that it can be installed with WindowMaker binaries. So instead of tunneling both a window manager and it's apps through ssh you now only need to tunnel the apps. It speeds things up a little :D

I think it would be great if there would be a cygwin distro. Not just the emulator and the handfull of apps that come with it.

So far, all I've found is the Debian GNU/w32 (http://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net/) project, it's still in early development, but it might turn out to be something.

Stef