Xming X Server for Windows

[Billy Crook]

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.  Someone suggested Cygwin, but I just came ac across something else
that might do the trick.  From their site:
Xming X Server for
Windows<http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/#sect-1>Xming is the
leading free unlimited X Window server for Microsoft Windows
(XP/2003/Vista). Xming is fully featured, small and fast, simple to
install<http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/#head-13>and because
it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily transported [image:
[WWW]]portable <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_portable_applications>as a
*Pocket PC X server*. It is totally secure when used with [image:
[WWW]]SSH<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh>and optionally includes a
special PuTTY
SSH client <http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/#head-145> and a portable
PuTTY replacement<http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/portableputty.php>.


Xming is built <http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/building.php> for
Microsoft Windows (32-bit x86) from [image:
[WWW]]X.Org<http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki>source code kept current
and secure with updates for [image:
[WWW]]X11R7.3 <http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?o=age>, [image:
[WWW]]XKB<http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig>,
[image: [WWW]]FreeType2 <http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html>
and [image:
[WWW]]Freedesktop Bugzilla <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/>. My
patches<http://www.straightrunning.com/Xming/>are applied and the code
cross-compiled with [image:
[WWW]]MinGW <http://www.mingw.org/> and [image:
[WWW]]Pthreads-Win32<http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/>
.

Ongoing Xming development is essential because its predecessor
projects, [image:
[WWW]]Freedesktop Xming <http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming> and [image:
[WWW]]Cygwin/X <http://x.cygwin.com/>, have lapsed.

Xming is mostly a derivative work and has many licenses e.g. the zlib
license, LGPLv2 for Pthreads, MIT/X11 for all PuTTY tools and the pixman
library. The Xming server is licensed GNU
GPLv2<http://www.straightrunning.com/Xming/COPYING>,
but repackaging and/or redistributing any part (or whole) of the Xming
website, documentation, images, executables or installers, by the internet,
other projects/products or via media such as CD's, without asking
permission, clearly acknowledging the contribution of 'Colin Harrison' and
providing links to [image:
[WWW]]StraightRunning.com/XmingNotes/<http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/>and
[image:
[WWW]]SourceForge Project Xming <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming> will
be regarded as a breach of copyright.
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