Re: X and NFS servers on XP

On 29/11/10 21:17, Nobody wrote:
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:26:18 -0700, D Yuniskis wrote:

Subject line says it all -- well, *most* of it!
(I'm also looking for an NFS client).

Anyone with firsthand experiences wrt any of these?

I use Xming a lot and and it works fine. The main drawback is that it
only supports OpenGL 1.2 and without hardware acceleration. There appears
to be some support in the more recent version (which requires a donation),
but I don't have any experience with that.

Cygwin used to offer a version of the X server with OpenGL acceleration,
but it was quite unreliable and they seem to have given up on it. There
doesn't seem to be any reason to choose Cygwin's X server over Xming.

If you want accelerated (or modern) OpenGL, there's StarNet X-Win32
and Hummingbird eXceed. But if you're going that route, it's probably
worth taking a gamble and seeing what you get from Xming with the £10
donation. X-Win32 is $285, while eXceed is $545 plus $195 for the OpenGL
upgrade.


At that price, it's cheaper just to buy a second computer and install Linux - then you get /real/ accelerated OpenGL.

Cygwin provides an NFS server, but I have no experience with it.


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