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Why port the X Window System to Microsoft Windows?

April 26, 2017Microsoft Windows port system window

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Why port the X Window System to Microsoft Windows?

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Porting X Window System to Microsoft Windows benefits many people and projects in many ways: • Prior to Cygwin/X only commercial, closed source X Servers were available for Microsoft Windows. • An X Server on Windows may be used to display the output of programs running on remote UNIX machines. • Cygwin/X, in conjunction with Cygwin, provides a complete compatibility layer for compiling and running UNIX applications on Microsoft Windows.