Re: [slug-chat] X server for Win2k?

["Colin Humphreys" <chumphreys@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally I have found Hummingbird Exceed to be unsatisfactory. The
Hummingbird NFS client is pretty good, but Exceed not so much. 

I have been unable to get a XDMCP query session going in Exceed, only a
broadcast one. On a small network where broadcasts are quick thats ok,
but it just plain bites on a big network.

Xwin32 is Ok, and I have another one lying round here somewhere... can't
remember the name thou.

-Colin

Terry Collins wrote:
> 
> invisible ink wrote:
> >
> > <quote who="Crossfire">
> >
> > > Don't worry, the mind warpage hurts less given time ;)
> 
> Aargh - take shoe, shove hard.
> 
> Chris was it you who posted the explanation some time ago about why it
> is arse about for X?
> 
> Hummingbird Exceed seems to be flavour of the month, but there are at
> least three other commercial products out there. If you have to buy a
> commercial products, compare the cost to one of the switch boxen I
> mentioned. This way you can run them both at the same time and use the
> linux boxen for your networking/dialup, samba server, etc. Warning -
> buying one of these switches will cause your home computers to breed
> {:-)
> 
> >
> > I'm sure Terry would argue that he's had much more time than either of us.
> 
> With X, naah, I find it funny that very few things really use X to solve
> a problem and if I'm paying for it, then they had better have a support
> line guru or "we" don't buy it.
> 
> Actually, I have no interest in being a Guru of anything. I just fiddle
> with computers. I find it all too much to take in the changes to unix,
> linux, MS windows, Os/2, etc,etc, etc all the time. It has just become
> one big blur. Remember the vegematic - well most of it ends up like them
> - junk in the back of the cupboard.
> 
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