Re: X-Windows and PCs

[Stefan Jeglinski <jeglin@4PI.COM>]

> I have a UNIX machine in my office and a Windows-95 PC at home. A number of
> UNIX-based programs such as X-View and Mathematica require the X-Windows
> environment to run. To get my e-mail when I'm at home, I telnet to our UNIX
> system at school. Works fine, but that's text only. What I'd like to know
> is whether there is any software that would allow me to run UNIX X-Windows
> programs remotely at home from Windows 95 over a modem connetion? Even
> better, shareware? Money is an object! If anybody has any experience doing
> this, I would very much appreciate hearing from you.



I am not familar with Win95 solutions. I know of a couple commercial
ones for Mac. But in the free category and gaining momentum is VNC:

 <http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/>


However, I would say that although X-Windows is a pretty efficient
GUI, Windows is not, and running one on top of another is a
performance hit. It may not be so bad when done locally, but if you
run it over a modem connection... yikes. I have never done this, but
the people I know who have say that it is almost unusable in this
case. Just not enough bandwidth, unless you are maybe just running a
terminal window. But if that's all you're doing, you should be
telnetting to begin with, which brings you back full circle :-(



Stefan Jeglinski