Cygwin is a set of GNU compatibility libraries for Win32 - it allows you to compile [some] UN*X programs for Windows (for example, the AbiWord builds for Windows are built with Cygwin) It was developed originally by Cygnus Inc, who were then bought by Red Hat. It's *not* used for what you're suggesting, except that you can build XFree86 using it, which you can then use to make an XDMCP connection to a UN*X box. Doing that will allow you to talk to any boxen that talks XDMCP - Red Hat, SuSE, Solaris, AIX, you name it...

It has been suggested to me that I can install Cygwin on the Windows machines and use this to connect to Linux systems. Isn’t Cygwin made by Red Hat? Will it work with SuSE? -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org

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I may be wrong,but I think Cygwin is not Linux, but some form of Unix-- yes I know that they're almost the same--but also that Cygwin has no graphical interface, no GUI. It runs on a Windows platform, as a program. When you run it, you get a black terminal screen with white letters, like DOS or old-fashioned UNIX. What you really want, I think, is a real Linux that stands on its own, with a real GUI, probably KDE, or perhaps not, and modern keyboard/mouse interfaces. Maybe you can make X-Windows run on CygWin, but I didn't succeed. Also, it installs with no word processor (other than the old Unix character-based ones) and not even MC. --doug On Thursday 23 May 2002 05:15, gs@hallgarth.middlesbrough.sch.uk wrote:

Hi

I’m in a similar situation. I work in a school in the UK and we are looking at switching from Windows to Linux. I already have a couple of SuSE boxen kicking around doing things like DHCP but we are looking at migrating our NT servers to nix over the summer, and possibly setting up some low-end (P75) classroom machines as thin clients.

One of the biggest problems I am facing is teacher training. I have some teachers who think, for example, that you _NEED_ Photoshop to be able to scan, and nothing else will work.

It has been suggested to me that I can install Cygwin on the Windows machines and use this to connect to Linux systems. Isn’t Cygwin made by Red Hat? Will it work with SuSE?

Thanks

Geoff Snowdon Hall Garth School