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

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

> On Mar 2, 7:37 am, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Anybody ever used xming?
>>
>> http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
>>
>> Still trying to figure out how its use-cases differ from Cygwin/X.
>
> We have found Xming far easier to install and administer than Cygwin,
> which always required an hour or more of staff time to install,
> whereas Xming can be installed by the user in five minutes and
> actually works. Try it - you'll like it.
>
> We always require the user to tunnel the protocol. You can see our
> instructions at:
>
>    http://www.nber.org/xming.html
>
> but you probably don't want to copy the links (which go to our
> server).

Thanks, Dan!

Open-source == good economics ;->

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