As you may or may not know, XFree86 has been successfully ported to MS Windows. You can get all the necessary bits to set it up yourselves from http://xfree86.cygwin.com/. Cygwin/XFree86 represents a nice and easy way to start experimenting with Linux thin-client setups, without having to mess around with boot ROMs and all the other minor hassles of approaches such as LTSP. It's really only suitable for *experimenting*, because it is nowhere near as fast as 'native' XF86. I have put together a single Zip file containing all the bits needed to start XF86 on Windows and use it to run applications on a remote Linux/BSD server (a la thin-client). This is significantly smaller than the amount you will end up downloading if you follow the instructions on Cygwin's web site. I have also added a couple of features such as autodetection of the screen size and colour depth (which are missing from the 'raw' release), and some extra diagnostic code. If anyone would be interested in testing this, please let me know and I'll e-mail it to you. If there's enough demand, I'll put it on the web. It should currently be considered as "alpha" quality (i.e. it works for me and it should work elsewhere, but I haven't tested it on a wide variety of machines yet). Note: you will need a working Linux application server on the network, set up to answer to XDMCP broadcast requests. An out-of-the-box Linux Mandrake setup will do this - I expect that other distributions will as well. Michael Brown http://www.fensystems.co.uk/