Why is there no X Server in Services For Unix?

re: Why is there no X Server in Services For Unix?

Bananenprinz — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:16:00 GMT

First: Your documents are kind of confusing regarding this. I really thought there was an X-Server shipped with SFU. Anyway, I tried Cygwin/XFree (http://xfree.cygwin.com/) and I'm satisfied with it.

X Server and Services for UNIX

BufferOverrun — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:11:00 GMT

re: Why is there no X Server in Services For Unix?

Phil Lembo — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:29:00 GMT

It was pretty clear to me that no X server was going to be bundled, for the reasons given. I'm also a satisfied user of the Cygwin distribution, but it's a shame to take up disk space with substantially duplicative code. It would be nice if someone could come up with a HOWTO for building XFree *using* the SFU SDK. My main reason for running SFU, however, is its integration into the POSIX subsystem of the Win OS -- even down to the device level, something Cygwin and its other competitors don't do.

re: Why is there no X Server in Services For Unix?

nbrouard — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:58:00 GMT

SFU is free since January, 15 2004. Still no X server. So use cygwin.

re: Why is there no X Server in Services For Unix?

jdzions — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:52:00 GMT

It's not possible to build XFree *using* the SFU SDK; an X server needs to talk directly to the graphics componentry which is all Win32-based stuff. An app built using the SFU SDK cannot make Win32 calls.

Probably the best thing someone could do is to extract XFree86 from the rest of Cygwin and make just that available as an easy download.