[Gllug] OT: unix on windows

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:29:11AM +0100, Steve Nelson wrote:
> On 4/14/06, Ben Fitzgerald <ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just started a new job where the corporate PC runs windows
> 
> Increasingly common, especially for large companies.
> 
> > Any other ideas for unix tools outside of cygwin that you find useful
> > would be of interest.
> 
> I use hummingbird exceed on my windows machine, run it in full screen,
> and tunnel X over ssh to a headless linux machine under my desk.  This
> means I can use the corporate windows system for email and various
> other tools I have to use, and flick to my linux machine with alt+tab
> for everything else.

Steve,

thanks for the pointer. Checking out the hummingbird site it looks
useful but it costs! I won't be starting to ask for extra s/w yet for
fear of being labelled a pain. I may download the demo though, out of
curiosity.

Thanks,

Ben.

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