I know, it's a bit offtopic, but, well, the monitor on my linux box (webserver, yada yada...) sucks ass, and needs replacing. The way i see it, an x-server for my windows box would probably be cheaper, and allow me to keep using the development tools on the linux box easily. So, can anyone here suggest a good x server for windows, specifically one that supports the render extension, because the one i have at present (x-win32 5.3) doesn't do so.
Tips are not only welcome, but actively solicited, and would be rewarded if it weren't for the fact that i'm damned poor (hence the unreplaced monitor :)
I don't have the Windows expertise to suggest a good X-server for it (especially not a good *and* free one, since I assume the poverty you mention would make a sizeable license fee a problem ... or am I assuming too much poverty here, since x-win32 5.3 seems to have a $US225 single-node license?). But have you considered VNC as a way to operate your Linux box remotely from a Windows workstation?
BTW, I routinely access my Linux hosts (traditional servers and a development workstation) from a Windows console, just using ssh sessions. That approach covers most of what I need to do on them. I've used VNC and been happy with it ... what stops me from working completely remotely is that there is no way to run XVideo remotely.
BTW, a naive Google search ("WIndows X-server free") does turn up a few matches, but no true freeware that I saw (just shareware and evaluation copies of commercial servers, with $US90 the lowest license fee I found, more than the cost here of a new 17" monitor). It did report a few references in e-mail messages to free X servers from Cygnus and one other company, but they were very old messages (1998-2000) and I believe the products they referenced vanished from general distribution years ago.
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