[mdlug] A big opportunity for Linux?

[Raymond McLaughlin]

David Lane wrote:
> 
> Is there a windows GUI resource that Allows you to Linux Remote from a
> Windows pc?
> 
> David

Do you mean a full remote desktop, of just running individual GUI
applications remotely? For the later some might recommend cygwin, but I
have no experience with that. But you might try ssh -X from Damn Small
Linux running in a VMware player session.

It seems to work quite well, I trying it out right now. I'm composing
this message while sitting at my laptop in my living room. Thunderbird
is running on a computer in my basement but displaying in a DSL window
in on Vista.

I'm not sure what facilities cygwin provides but if you just need a
local X environment for the display of remote applications this seems
like a good way to go.

Raymond McLaughlin