Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-08 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áéåí øáéòé, 6 áðåáîáø 2002, 20:11, Eran Tromer ëúá òì 'Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86': Ira Abramov wrote: why isn't it cheap to access win from lin? I have done it several times with TightVNC clients, as well as with the windows RDP client (both

Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-08 Thread Eran Tromer
Oded Arbel wrote: TightVNC is quite usable on a non-dedicated ISDN connection (i.e. - other things are using it at the same time), so I believe it will be very responsive on a LAN. I also used the vncviewer from ATT and the krdc from KDE 3.1 and they're both usable on low bandwidth

Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-08 Thread Oded Arbel
for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and other OSs you can find quite a comprehensive list of X servers. maybe one of them is right for you. áéåí ùéùé, 8 áðåáîáø 2002, 19:26, ëúáú òì 'Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86': Hi, Point taken, but I think this one has an indirect but significant relevance to Linux

Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-06 Thread Eli Marmor
Recently, there is an old-new alternative, which had not been serious until recently: VNC. VNC technologies made a big leap in the last year, and are really viable for many uses that had demanded pure X in the past. If you control both of the sides (the UNIX side AND the Windows side), you

Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-06 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:47:43AM +0200, Eran Tromer wrote: Some time ago I consulted this list about good X servers for Windows (it's easier and far cheaper to access Linux from Windows than the reverse; I need both). This what happens when you're open - people pay the competetion in order

Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-06 Thread Eran Tromer
Ira Abramov wrote: why isn't it cheap to access win from lin? I have done it several times with TightVNC clients, as well as with the windows RDP client (both are packages on Debian's main tree, apt-get install rdesktop xvncviewer) I find VNC way too slow and jumpy for extensive work, which

Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-05 Thread Eran Tromer
Greetings, Some time ago I consulted this list about good X servers for Windows (it's easier and far cheaper to access Linux from Windows than the reverse; I need both). Back then, the conclusion was that there is no satisfactory free solution, so I've been using Starnet's X-Win32 [1]. Well,