[hutchins at tarcanfel.org: Re: Xming X Server for Windows]

[Ed Allen]

>
>On Wednesday 08 August 2007 11:05:16 am Billy Crook wrote:
>
>> A while back the topic came up either in the IRC or on the list  about
>> wanting to run an X11 app on a Linux server, and view it on a windows
>> machine.  
>
>There have been graphical X-terminal suites for Windows pretty much since 
>Windows came out.  The stunning thing about most of them was the price - last 
>time I dealt with them they were around $250 per station.  Most of the 
>applications I saw were simple text terminal applications, but most had 
>graphical capabilities as well.

I know this is an old thread but I want to mention VNC as another alternative.

Across slow links it can be a pain but anything above 128k works
well enough for most things.

Slower links can use eight bit mode, 256 colors is not graphically
pleasing but can be ok for non-picture browsing,

Using 8-bit I have run desktops over a dialup link, 33k, which were slow but
good enough to get the job done.