HI, > > 5 Stability Medium High > > Quite unclear wording. I use Cygwin/X in my daily work and > this proves it's stability. The multiwindow mode still has > some issues but is very stable too.
Indeed, and misleads, too. I actually have a Starnet license, but no longer use it. Reason: X-Win didn't display things properly, especially window-manager owned windows - i.e. there were bugs. Cygwin/X worked fine. I did mail Starnet with a bug report, but no action was taken over a period of several months. > > 6 Display Number Setting Manual Automatic That would be nice: tell Cygwin "start a server using the next available display", rather than have to pick a specific number. However, I can't say I've lost much sleep over it's lack. > > 9 Multiple XDMCP Sessions Manual Automatic > > Not sure what they mean with it. X-Win32 does connect > automaticly to all XDMCP servers in the network? *g* I guess they mean serving xdmcp from cygwin to external hosts?? If not, then I was using two xdmcp-served cygwin displays (to different linux hosts) earlier today: it certainly is possible. > > 10 Corporate Tech Support No Yes > > 11 Corporate Bug Fix Support No Yes > > This corresponds to "bucks to pay". Cygwin/X is free and you > have a community which gives support. Critical bugs are > usually fixed after few days. Starnet support available <> bugs fixed. See above. > > 12 Passing of Display Number to SSH Client Manual Automatic Ugh? What is this about. > > 13 Integrated SSH Client with GUI No Yes > > This is an xserver not a multi purpose tool. With OpenSSH and Fully agree. When I want an ssh client I'll pick one. I don't need cygwin/x or starnet to be a jack-of-all-trades. > > 14 Multiple Window Mode Performance Slow > Fast/Very Stable > > The stability can be improved. But the performance is good. I would disagree "slow" too, but it's not "fast". And there are some anomalies. Point to Starnet here, I think. > > 16 Graphical Keymap Editing Tool No Yes > Cygwin/X uses XKB. There are many tools for XKB support > available which are not limited to only one xserver implementation Starnets config tool is nice. I'll give them that. Mind you, I only had to use it because the default keyboard layout was broken for my uk KB :-) > > 30 Panning Support No Yes We have "-scrollbars" - almost there, barring the mouse control. Mind you, I've only ever used this as a last ditch on crap display hardware. > > 31 Suport for Multiple Users (e.g. Terminal Services) > No Yes I guess we need a port of xdm to Cygwin. Perhaps the cygwin/KDE project will manage topoer kdm. However, I'm not sure why you would want this, really. While wandering the net just now, I noticed this article. It would be great if this could be nicely wrapped up for simpler use :-) http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/8078/print#N0x850ca10.0x8573cf4 Regards, Ruth
