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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:41:34 -0500
From:      hawk <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cheap/free Xserver n32 for a unix-phobic administrator? 
Message-ID:  <200102152241.f1FMfY624527@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:56:32 CST." <14988.20624.163716.535654@guru.mired.org> 

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mike mentioned,

> Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> types:

> > On 15-Feb-01 hawk wrote:


> > I'm not sure what you want but if you want to run X-apps on a windowsbox
> > over a network VNC works like a charm. You can tunnel it through SSH so
> > it's possible to secure it very well.

> I'll second the "not being sure". Other thing that might do the poorly
> described job are webmin (in the ports tree) and PuTTY, a free
> terminal emulator that connects to an ssh port on your system.

Specifically, I need them to be able to run the copy of LyX on
my box.  There is a windows port of LyX, but it needs an xserver,
cignus, etc.

There are two students writing jointly with me, and I need to be
able to edit with them-and I'm not switching these documents over
to Word . . .

hawk



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