[seul-edu] Re: X servers for Windows (was: (FWD) Re: Fw: RE: [seul-edu]Comprehensive StudentManagement)

["Michael S. Williams" <michael@haywood.k12.nc.us>]

Ray Olszewski wrote:
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> I think you mean X servers, not X clients. In the context of X, the server
> is the program that runs on the PC and manages the display. Clients are
> programs that use the X server as their display (e.g, Netscape, Eterm, all
> the ones that start with K, DDD). This seems like a backwards usage, but it
> is actually consistent with the technical meansings of "server" and "client".

I stand corrected.

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> To the best of my knowledge, there are no Open Source X servers for Windows,
> and there never were any. There used to be a free (zero price) one from a
> maker of applications that used X, but I haven't seen it around for a couple
> of years. A quick check at Tucows turns up one shareware product and two
> demos of commercial products; for the details, look at URL
>
>         http://idirect.tucows.com/xwinserver95.html
>
> I probably do not have to tell you that while freeware and shareware are
> common on Windows, true Open Source software is still uncommon.

I may step it it again here, but is that because of Windows or Windows compiler
licensing or just not enough interest ? Would not such an application help the
Open Source community?

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> Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA                                    ray@comarre.com
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Michael Williams