From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 10: 4:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.bsdjournal.com (unknown [207.227.33.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B08114BEF for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from general@shell.bsdjournal.com) Received: from localhost (general@localhost) by shell.bsdjournal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA20459 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:04:17 GMT (envelope-from general@shell.bsdjournal.com) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:04:17 +0000 (GMT) From: BSD Journal - general Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Recommendation for win95/98 Xwindows server software? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I love VNC. I run it at work because I have to be on Windows sometimes, and I can grab my X server at home from it. -Patrick On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Joe Orthoefer wrote: > The starnet.com offering is a good solid server. > > There is a freeware X server associated with some GIS software. The > server is called "mix", last I checked there were no access controls in > the server, which is bad if you're connected to a hostile network, eg. > the Internet. > > Check freshmeat.net, there should be pointers to a java X server floating > around. > > Also look into "vnc", also indexed at freshmeat. > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Allan Ross wrote: > > > I am using a FreeBSD box as my dial-up server in the house for > > 4 clients. I have tried a couple of different flavours of xwindows > > servers on my win98 system with the best yet being Hummingbird > > Exceed. Trouble is that was a timed demo and has expired. Nothing > > else I have seen has been both decent looking and free/cheap. I liked > > the Exceed but it was damned expensive! Any suggestions out there? > > > > Allan Ross > > General Manager > > SSI Micro > > Yellowknife, NT > > Ph: (867) 669-7500 > > Fax: (867) 669-7510 > > Web: http://www.ssimicro.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message