XliveCD

Forum: water cooler
Topic: XliveCD
started by: roberts

Posted by roberts on Dec. 01 2004,21:28

Just for fun. A bash shell, many nix utils, and X, running in Windows with no installation. < http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/ >

With this you can run X apps from your DSL computer from Windows machine.
This is not remote X. It is local X running remote X-apps via ssh.

Boot your DSL computer. Change the password for user dsl, or add your windows user to DSL with the menu System->Add Users

Thats it.

From windows, boot the XliveCD and then ssh into your DSL box, something like this:
Desktop> ssh dsl@192.168.0.15

Then you can run an Xapp, like say sylpheed.

This will work with DSL without running X in DSL.
For example:
boot: dsl 2 ssh

This will start DSL at runlevel 2, cli, and start ssh deamon.
Then from Windows you can run sylpheed, or firefox, or other Xapps.

Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 01 2004,21:57

That looks really cool. I had Cygwin running ok when I was starting to get interested in Linux, but it was difficult to get X set up and configured. I'm going to have to try this out...eventually. I've never had much luck downloading more than 100mb through dialup, though.

Posted by ico2 on Dec. 02 2004,14:10

hmmmmmmm, looks useful, i have tried and failed to use xwin32 and even dsl under qemu to get x redirected from a shell server to my windows pc, looks like this may be the answer

i have no time today but i will try it out tommorrow

Posted by ico2 on Dec. 02 2004,14:13

will it support network x connections ie: on the remote machine typing xterm -display mywindowsbox:0.0 and the windows machine accepting the x connection

Posted by ico2 on Dec. 02 2004,14:14

aarrgh, just looked at the iso size and it is 377mb, ouch, maybe i will give that one a miss