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Serious Geek Fun



I recently updated Cygwin on one of my machines. Cygwin is, essentially, a Linux emulator that you can run on top of Windows. The latest version inclues Xfree86, which means you can run X Windows apps (either local ones that are part of the Cygwin distribution, or remote ones on Linux boxes). Here you see it in action (clockwise from top left): WheatBlog as redered by Lynx in a Bash terminal window, xclock, kview displaying a cool pic of an Atari 2600 (running as a remote X session from a Linux box), and the xterm window used to launch kview. The remote X session is running over SSH. It’s pretty swank and suprisingly fast considering all the layers of abstration going on.