What do people use Xfree86 for?

[Pille Geert (bizvdm)]

You should feed your braincell more regularly, give it some water too.

The page you refer to is full of broken links and is trying to sell the
antique MI/X server.  Which was never able to handle multinational
keyboards.  Of course, this wouldn't be a problem, since yours is uppercase
only.  Still working on that Tandy?

-----Original Message-----
From: j-ttompkins@hotmail.com [mailto:j-ttompkins@hotmail.com]
Sent: zondag 2 februari 2003 6:10
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: What do people use Xfree86 for?


BULLSHIT!!!! 

NOT A GOOD EXPLAINATION!!!!

USE FOR REMTELY CONNECTING TO A UNIX BOX N USE REMOTE APPLICATIONS.....
YA CAN DOWNLOAD FREE XSERVER FROM
http://www.thecyborg.com/howto/xserver.html



>Fred,

>I actually use Cygwin/XFree86 to run xfig on my laptop while I am doing 
>my math and computer science homework at the library.  That is the most 
>useful local app that I use.  Other than that I tend to open XDMCP 
>sessions to my linux boxen so that I can login and use KDE.  That's 
>about it.

>Harold

>fred wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just ran Xfree86.  Very, very nice.
> Just like sitting on the sun boxes
> at school.  All the twm setup files
> and Xresources work the same.  It was
> so alike (and tons faster) that I got
> carried away and starting to invoke
> apps like I do from school.  That's
> where the similarity ended.  All the
> apps fired up outside of Xwindows.
> That's OK, my relationship with windows
> is one of like-hate.  It has some pretty
> handy features, but I tear my head off
> about some things.
> 
> But, given that cygwin's X runs within
> Windows, and any apps you invoke fire
> up in MS windows (that's the way it
> should be because the apps were written
> to use the MS windows features), what
> do people actually use X for?  I've
> found that despite the mighty coolness,
> all I do is open up an xterm and start
> an ssh tunnel to school, with port
> forwarding.  Then I do everything else
> from MS windows.  With the virtual
> scrolling of the touchpad, and the
> rather effortless cut-and-paste, I
> don't mind it at all.  But it sort of
> makes me wonder....why?
> 
> Fred
> 
> P.S.  This is not a knock down of X
> on cygwin, I think it's really cool.
> It's astounding that it was even
> possible.  I'm wondering if I'm not
> making as much use of it as I could.
> 





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