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By: I Want to Be Like a Web Host. I think. » Solo Technology

I Want to Be Like a Web Host. I think. » Solo Technology — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:30:16 +0000

[...] mentioned in a post last week, I’m rolling out some Linux based web servers at work (CentOS to start with). This [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:29:14 +0000

PuTTY & Xming have been rocking my world.

The cygwin version worked too, but just didn’t “grab” me (and, with no quantification, just felt slower…).

Thanks for all the ideas and tips

By: Peter Motyka

Peter Motyka — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:05:17 +0000

To make the shell a more powerful environment, and to avoid to many PuTTy windows, check out GNU screen. It is bundled with nearly every Linux distro.

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

I love detaching from stuff and reattaching later, like building a package from source.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:48:57 +0000

Ah ok, I’ll grab the “proper” cygwin setup.exe and have a look.

I had just looked at the Cygwin/X page initially: http://x.cygwin.com/ but perhaps it is dated.

By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:34:01 +0000

Chris I don’t think so,

Cygwin’s constantly under development.

use the I think the package is XORG-X11-BASE

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:07:21 +0000

Hey guys, thanks for the suggestions. Much appreciated.

So, Cygwin/X was last updated in 2004. Am I looking at the right thing?

By: Vox

Vox — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:19:25 +0000

That’d be my recommendation…an X server on windows so you can just do X-forwarding from your linux boxes and stop suffering…that’s why X is designed the way it is…no need for stinking VNC and similar stuff