James B. Byrne wrote:
An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered before.
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
Regards, Jim
Have you considered Co-linux?
I have it running on XP and 2000 desktops.
Basically it's a full Debian distro that runs inside Windows, I even installed KDE/IceWM/Gnome and used VNC viewer to show the GUI as a window in Windows. Worked great for me as a way of running forwarded X sessions over SSH.
Oh and it's free too. :-)
rgds
Franki