On 7/21/07, RS singh rsnsingh@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Dear linux Users
I want to get the linux desktop on windows in our college. My purpose is to teach C language to students of MCA by using GVIM and DDD.
What are the softwares required.
- Best suited linux Server for this purpose.
Any, if not ancient.
- best suited windows client.
Any, if not ancient.
I have tried following things but could not work.
Server LINUX RH 7.0
This is very old. Try RHEL 4 or FC6/7 or Ubuntu 6.06/7.04/...
cygwin at windows
cygwin I downloaded from internet, seems to be a complete linux system that emulated linux on windows and it is quite heavy.
This doesn't look necessary for what you want to do.
What I want is a lite desktop that connects to linux server and shows me GVIM of linux on windows system.
I think you need something like VNC. http://www.realvnc.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi
<partly-non-GPL>
You need to run the vnc server on the Linux server and run vnc clients on the Windows machines. The vnc client gives access to the Linux desktop.
</partly-non-GPL> FreeNX is also available. But I haven't tried it.
Regards, Mohan S N