Xwindows display on Vista?

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I read in one of the advertising promos that Vista (my version is 64bit
Enterprise) can "run unix applications".


Where can I find out more information about this?

Specifically, does this mean that Vista can act as a Xwindows terminal
(or do I still need to install a program such as Starnet's Xwin)?
 
Chris Barnes said:
I read in one of the advertising promos that Vista (my version is 64bit
Enterprise) can "run unix applications".


Where can I find out more information about this?

Specifically, does this mean that Vista can act as a Xwindows terminal (or
do I still need to install a program such as Starnet's Xwin)?
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Just turn on the Subsystem for UNIX application feature in the Programs and
Features control panel applet.
see
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...d314-45df-b464-4c80ddc2b3bc1033.mspx?mfr=true
(it is the same technology in Vista)
or just do a search on the Microsoft web site for subsystem for Unix
 
Mike said:
Just turn on the Subsystem for UNIX application feature in the Programs and
Features control panel applet.
see
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...d314-45df-b464-4c80ddc2b3bc1033.mspx?mfr=true
(it is the same technology in Vista)
or just do a search on the Microsoft web site for subsystem for Unix
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I did that. Here is the information on the website:
Utilities and SDK for UNIX-Based Applications is an add-on to the
Subsystem for UNIX-Based Applications (referred to as SUA, hence forth)
component that shipped in Microsoft Windows Vista / Windows Server Code
Name "Longhorn" Beta 3.
This consists of the following components:

- Base Utilities
- SVR-5 Utilities
- Base SDK
- GNU SDK
- GNU Utilities
- UNIX Perl
- Visual Studio Debugger Add-in


Seems like overkill for a simple Xwindows manager, no?
 
Mike said:
Its not just an Xwindows manager - it is a full suite of tools and
appliacvtion to allow you to run recomiled UNIX apps on the Windows kernel.

This is a merger of Interix and the older Services for UNIX.
Just do a search on the Microsoft site there is a lot more to the subsystem
for UNIX then just X
check out the links on
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/r2/unixinterop/default.mspx at
the bottom
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Yes, I know. But *my question* was just for an Xwindows session manager.
 
You want to see a blue screen in X-Windows? lol

please send a screenshot! ha!

Ok now serious question.. why do you want to do this?
 
Spocks said:
You want to see a blue screen in X-Windows? lol

please send a screenshot! ha!

Ok now serious question.. why do you want to do this?
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Are you kidding?

Maybe, just maybe some folks use multiple machines with multiple OS's.
They might even be a computer systems manager who isn't a biggot for any
OS (using Windows, OSX, and whatever *nix version they deem suitable).
And maybe their desktop in their office happens to be Vista, but one of
their servers is running *nix with Xwindows apps (such as the VMWare
management tool, CUPS, or any one of a hundred other Xapps).

So rather than walk to the serverroom (or drive across town) and logon
to the console of the *nix server, they simply want to have an
ssh-enabled Xwindows session on their local desktop.



There are several 3rd party products that do a fine job of allowing X
sessions on a Windows box (eXceed, Starnet Xwin, even VNC). But the
advertising for Vista indicated that the functionality was built into
Vista. If it was, it seemed to be worthwhile to at least give it a
trial run.


As it turns out, the advertising was misleading. I'll be happy to
continue with my other alternatives.
 
Spocks said:
You want to see a blue screen in X-Windows? lol

please send a screenshot! ha!

Ok now serious question.. why do you want to do this?
Click to expand...


Are you kidding?

Maybe, just maybe some folks use multiple machines with multiple OS's.
They might even be a computer systems manager.

And maybe their desktop in their office happens to be Vista, but one of
their servers is running *nix with Xwindows apps (such as the VMWare
management tool, CUPS, or any one of a hundred other Xapps).

So rather than walk to the serverroom and logon to the console of the
*nix server, they simply want to have an ssh-enabled Xwindows session on
their local desktop.



There are several 3rd party products that do a fine job of allowing X
sessions on a Windows box (eXceed, Starnet Xwin, even VNC). But the
advertising for Vista indicated that the functionality was built into
Vista. If it was, it seemed to be worthwhile to at least give it a
trial run.

As it turns out, the advertising was misleading.
 
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