{"id":81,"date":"2004-11-26T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-26T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-07-24T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T04:28:07","slug":"open-source-open-source-open-all-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2004\/open-source-open-source-open-all-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Betta Linux-on-top-of-Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hyper-quick CliffNotes summary of X for those new to linux: The X Window System is the foundation of the GUI of modern Unices.  The best part: it allows you to escape the graphical prison of a M$ Windoze(TM) operating system by running an &#8220;X Server&#8221;.  The X server can display your X windows from a remote linux machine on the local machine instead (even if it&#8217;s a Windoze(TM) box).  With a smart Winblows(TM) SSH client like <SLASH HREF=\"http:\/\/www.chiark.greenend.org.uk\/~sgtatham\/putty\/\" ID=\"809316513cecfa58da41c4572028bde3\" TITLE=\"\" TYPE=\"link\">putty<\/SLASH>, you can tunnel your X packets through an SSH session, so you end up with both command line and graphical secure remote access to your boxxen, whoop!<\/p>\n<p>There are literally TONS of X servers for Windumbs(TM).  However, I think I just found the best.  <SLASH HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cygwin.com\/\" ID=\"5c404431243ec0d917dd52de9437a579\" TITLE=\"\" TYPE=\"link\">Cygwin<\/SLASH> is a super-groovy set of native libraries that provide a command shell under Winslows(TM) with a LOT of linux functionality.  On top of that, they provide an X environment.  On top of THAT, it comes with an X server.  Just run the Cygwin setup program, and make sure you include the following components:<\/p>\n<li>xorg-x11-base\n<li>x-startup-scripts\n<p>Then open your Cygwin shell and type &#8220;startxwin.sh&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As a final note, I&#8217;m having a lot of luck with the newer X.org flavor of X.  It&#8217;s running on my Gentoo box, my Fedora box, and the Cygwin on this laptop.  All the goodies, none of the crankiness, of XFree86.  :><\/p>\n<p>Life just doesn&#8217;t get any better under Windoesn&#8217;t(TM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hyper-quick CliffNotes summary of X for those new to linux: The X Window System is the foundation of the GUI of modern Unices. The best part: it allows you to escape the graphical prison of a M$ Windoze(TM) operating system by running an &#8220;X Server&#8221;. The X server can display your X windows from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-projects","category-tricks-tips-tools","category-windows-projects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-1j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}