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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:33:40 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
To:        "Kutulu" <kutulu@kutulu.org>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: home pc use
Message-ID:  <002f01c171d0$5e05cfe0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Kutulu writes:

> XFree86 actually runs on Windows now (via Cygwin).

Cygwin sounds like another layer, and one that modifies system files at that.
On that path lies danger.

> * There is only one Win32 X server, which uses
> DirectX.

I run NT 4.0, which does not support DirectX (at least not any recent version of
it).

> Therefore, the video hardware support is exactly
> as good as the support you get from Windows.

DirectX is designed to help applications bypass the OS, which is one reason why
it was long in coming on NT (it represents a lot of security problems).

Unfortunately, the DirectX requirement would disqualify it in my case, because I
doubt that my machine would have the necessary support.  Windows 2000 probably
has it, but I'm not going to change operating systems just for that.

I don't really see why an X Server needs DirectX, anyway.  DirectX is for games.

> And I still haven't figured out how to get it
> to use XDMCP the way XWin32 does.

What is XWin32?  Is it any good?  What does it cost?  All I've been able to find
is ServerX and eXceed, both of which are dramatically overpriced (perhaps they
are subsidiaries of Quark).  MicroImage makes a free server, but it faults
instantly as soon as I try to open a window.

> * It's kinda kudgy.  You basically install the
> entire Cygwin environment, which gives you a UNIX-alike
> runtime environment in Win32, then install
> XFree86 on top of that.

That sounds very, very risky on a production machine.

> Definitely worth looking into.

I'll take a look at it, although I'm not optimistic.

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