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Re: Trim Windows bloat -- make it a thin client

After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

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> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Monday 02 March 2009 12:37 : \____
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>> Anybody ever used xming?
>> 
>>    http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
>> 
>> Still trying to figure out how its use-cases differ from Cygwin/X.
>> 
>> Looks like it could be a more lightweight (e.g. no cygwin.dll) way to tunnel
>> X through SSH to your remote Linux box.
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> Why not run Debian virtualised and SSH from that? Quite seamless.

The key word is lightweight.

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