No I mean xwin32: www.willows.com
--- Greg Schmidt <slugmail@gschmidt.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2002, Carson Wilcox wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any experience running Willows
> twin
> > xwin32? It'a an app for running windows apps under
> > unix. Similar to Wine I believe.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carson
> >
> Do you mean X-Win32,
> http://www.starnet.com/products/ ?
>
> That's not a Windows emulator. It is an X server
> that runs on Windows and
> allows you get at a virtual unix console across a
> network. I used it to
> get at Sun boxen at work. Honesty, I don't see how
> they stay in business
> when there's VNC.
> http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
>
> VNC offers about the same funtionality and has a lot
> of advantages over
> X-Win32. It runs on more platforms. The
> "client"-side can be run with
> nothing more than a java-capable web browser. It is
> easier to config.
> It's free as in "Free beer" and free as in "Here's
> the source code. Have
> fun." (And send us the changes, please, if you
> manage to compile for
> another platform.)
>
> The one environment where I see X-Win32 has an
> advantage is the one in
> which I used it. I was required to run Windows. I
> needed to drive a unix
> box. I could not even dream of talking anyone into
> installing the
> unix-side VNC software on those Sun boxen. X-Win32
> could do what I needed
> in that set of constraints.
>
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