From: astockdale AT computer DOT org (Alexander Stockdale)
Subject: Re: server X
10 Sep 1998 16:57:36 -0700
Message-ID: <19980910001327.30985.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@findmail.com>
References: <19980908170534 DOT 07056 AT cygnus DOT com>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> > I'm asking myself a question. Don't we need to port the X server part under
> > gnu win ? In fact, it's the only part we have to buy to make the Xclient
> > stuff works. Is it an idea or do you consider that the free stuff is
> > sufficient ?
> 
> Quite a variety of native Win32 ports of X servers should work fine,
> be it a free or commercial one.  You may want to try the free ones
> first and see how they work for you...
> 

The two free x-servers for Win32 that I'm aware of are the M/IX server (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) and the StarNet server.  The M/IX server is fair (does not support Athena widgets properly).  The StarNet server is quite good, but the downloadable version will only run for 2 hours at a time.

I think we really need to port XFree86 to the cygwin environment.  I've started looking into this, but it looks like it may be a big job (just look at the size of the diff file for the OS/2 port).

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