From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 10:14:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cise.ufl.edu (beach.cise.ufl.edu [128.227.205.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE6837B405 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shine.cise.ufl.edu (shine.cise.ufl.edu [128.227.205.227]) by mail.cise.ufl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7670069B8 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:13:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from nthomas@localhost) by shine.cise.ufl.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id NAA05125 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:13:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:13:54 -0400 From: "N. Thomas" To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: [ot] good Xserver for Windows 2000? Message-ID: <20020408171354.GB5106@cise.ufl.edu> References: <20020408170541.B34172-100000@small.pukruppa.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * John Mills [2002-04-08 12:49:48 -0400]: > > > I'm looking for a good X server (possibly commercial) to display X > > applications from my FreeBSD box on a Windows 2000 terminal. > > > Who has used/can recommend a good X server? > > I am setting up some Linux hosts which will be used by developers from > their MsWin desktops. I am recommending they try VNC > ([http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc]) for logins. Let me second the recommendation for VNC. If all you need is inertface with your Unix box from Windows, VNC is exactly what you need. The nice thing about VNC is that it will keep the processing work on your FreeBSD box and all the Windows terminal will have to do is update graphics. -- N. Thomas nthomas@cise.ufl.edu Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message