[NTLUG:Discuss] A 'Halfway' Distribution

[MadHat]

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 09:50, Merlin wrote:
> 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.
> 

http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/

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

Yeh, we spend money on the hummingbird.  

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

It is feasible, but not as easy as the other solutions (as of 6 months
ago, the last install I did), but they have made a lot of updates.

Personally I love it, but I am very much a geek.

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`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
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