From: "Bart Alewijnse" <scarfman AT geocities DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: X and GNOME ports.
Date: 18 Jun 1999 13:29:13 GMT
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There is a (perhaps a few) windows X server. (in the regular world, it's
called a client but
as X users know, X names it the other way around) If you're dying to do
stuff like this,
uh... Convince linux users to start using windows again in the first
place.. A :lot: just
switched to linux and kept w95 for some progs that aren't (and won't be)
ported to linux...
 But as to total desktop facelift, I don't know. Apart from the fact I know
there's a
windows X client around. Which is useless unless yo run linux on a second
machine.
(not a bad idea, but often an out-of-budget idea.)

-Bart

Johan Venter <jventer AT writeme DOT com> wrote in article
<5Tqa3.12207$PN5 DOT 32277 AT newsfeeds DOT bigpond DOT com>...
> Is anyone planning to port X and GNOME to DOS?
> 
> The reason I ask is because I love Linux, and want to have my Windows box
looking like
> Linux. The ultimate would be to have GNOME and Enlightenment running on
Bash. I have Bash,
> so I'm half way there.
> 
> To me, this seems like the most logical step up for DJGPP and Unix->DOS
ports in general.
> 
> What would be involved to port GNOME and X to DOS? I realise it would be
a lot of work,
> but no more than already has been done on DOS ports of the GNU tools.
> 
> --
> Johan Venter
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