Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification

Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by gtwy on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:39AM (#9190657)

Does this support running X over SSH? The biggest drawback for me with Windows boxes was always a lack of X support for applications I want to run on remote servers.

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Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by fizgig on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:43AM (#9190690)

Yes. From the stock bash prompt, run "startxwin". With the resulting xterm, you can launch any X apps within Cygwin, or you can SSH in (with appropriate flags and xauth config, etc.) and blow back X apps from the remote Unix box. It's really nice.

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Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by icebraining on Thursday March 12, 2015 @10:02AM (#9190816)

In my limited experience, Xming worked fine for that use case.

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