Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Can you elaborate how this is different from cygwin itself? Cygwin > offers both an X server and ssh. And you can choose to install only > the components you are interested in. Why something special? Why putty > and not openssh (from cygwin itself)? What are the advantages?
Cygwin is sort of a half step between a Linux compatability layer and windows. It allows you to run Linux programs after recompiling and linking them as opposed to a true compatibility layer that would allow you to run linux binaries directly. Obviously there is some overhead involved. Putty is a native windows application and therefore is much smaller and more tightly integrated. It requires no extra DLLS, cygwin files, shells, etc. Over the years, I've used several X packages for windows, and only one which started out as freeware and became commercial software, were small. Hummingbird's eXceed is a very nice and complete package but it is over 150 megabyes on disk. One the other hand, I'm writing this using ELM running on a Linux machine connected to by a Mac laptop running OS X 10.3. Being based on BSD UNIX, it includes ssh and a tightly integrated X windows out of the box. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] IL Voice: 972-544-608-069 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 I may be an old fart, but I'm a high-tech, up to date old fart. :-) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
