[NTLUG:Discuss] A 'Halfway' Distribution

[Merlin]

Quoting MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com>:

> > Another utility/program/environment that does this Cygwin.  I run it on my
> 
> > Win95 box at work and on my WinXP box at home.
> > 
> > Works real nice, has what amounts to a package manager so you can decide
> what 
> > to install when, and to an extremem novice/newbie everything that I do on
> Linux 
> > (minus X-Windows) works the same under Cygwin.
> 
> I run X under CygWin to work on a headless Linux box I have.  I start X
> and ssh into the box and startkde and it displays on my laptop, while
> running on my server.  

Okay, now that is cool.  I didn't realize CygWin supported X.  I'll have to 
play around with that, and maybe let our Unix guys know.  Right now they spend 
a ton of money on Reflection-X licenses for non-unix desktops to talk to the 
unix servers we have running our Oracle databases.

If CygWin supports X, then maybe we can save money on all of those Reflection-X 
licenses.

Based on your experience, do you think this is feasible?

-- 
Merlin
"Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards,
for they are subtle and quick to anger."