Do you mean you want to run the X Windows System over the Internet? Just so you know, you shouldn't expect very good performance. Despite what you may have read, X really only gives good performance over a LAN or a high bandwidth Internet connection. Well, at least for any type of complicated application. Applications such as xterm or gvim will run nicely though.
This is somewhere that UNIX could pickup some tips from the Windows world. For low-bandwith (or better) remote desktops Microsoft's RDP and Citrix's ICA tend to leave X in the dust. Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Systems Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of John Hebert > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:22 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [brluglist] XFree86 on M$ Win2K > > > Very cool! > > I'd like to try setting something up like this to get to my home machine > from work. What kind of performance do you get? What's your bandwidth > between the two machines? > > Also, have you tried compiling dpkg under Cygwin? I started the steps last > night at work, but ran out of time. > > John Hebert > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam J. Melancon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [brluglist] XFree86 on M$ Win2K > > > I didn't realize that you were interested in this John. At the meeting > monday I had my laptop with me and it had cygwin/Xfree86 up and > running on > it. > > Check it out, I'm using cygwin on win98 to ssh to a server and using X11 > forwarding to run programs locally. Here I'm monitoring the system using > gtop. > http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us/cygwin98.jpg > > and here are some gimp shots > http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us/gimp1.jpg > http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us/gimp2.jpg > > Adam J. Melancon > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
