Re: X servers for Windows (was: (FWD) Re: Fw: RE: [seul-edu] Comprehensive StudentManagement)

[Jeff Waddell <jeff@smluc.org>]

Hey Ray and all,

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:

-->Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 12:21:11 -0700
-->From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
-->Reply-To: seul-edu@seul.org
-->To: seul-edu@seul.org
-->Subject: Re: X servers for Windows (was: (FWD) Re: Fw: RE: [seul-edu] 
    Comprehensive StudentManagement)
-->
-->Michael -- I very much look forward to reading about the details of your
-->school's support of Open Source development/customization after it actually
-->happens. In the meantime, I'm responding here to your question about X clients.
-->
-->At 02:56 PM 9/3/00 -0400, Michael S. Williams wrote:
-->...
-->>BTW, are there any good open source X window 
-->>clients for Windwos 9x?  That would
-->>eleminate the need for everything to be HTML based 
-->>wouldn't it? Just as a stepping
-->>stone?
-->
-->I think you mean X servers, not X clients. In the context of X, the server
-->is the program that runs on the PC and manages the display. Clients are
-->programs that use the X server as their display (e.g, Netscape, Eterm, all
-->the ones that start with K, DDD). This seems like a backwards usage, but it
-->is actually consistent with the technical meansings of "server" and "client".
-->
-->To the best of my knowledge, there are no Open Source X servers for Windows,
-->and there never were any. There used to be a free (zero price) one from a
-->maker of applications that used X, but I haven't seen it around for a couple
-->of years. A quick check at Tucows turns up one shareware product and two
-->demos of commercial products; for the details, look at URL
-->
-->        http://idirect.tucows.com/xwinserver95.html
-->
-->I probably do not have to tell you that while freeware and shareware are
-->common on Windows, true Open Source software is still uncommon.
-->

Actually I think there are a couple of free X servers for Windows9x
machines however it may be better to us VNC on the Windows9x boxes having
them connect to a server that's running the actual X server and
applications.  VNC is complicated in theory but it DOES work.

Check it out at:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/