cygwin

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, at 1:58pm, gaf at blu.org wrote:
> They had one machine for use in their Linux on the Desktop course. Part of
> the problem is that they have 4 campuses:The main Boston Campus, Dedham,
> Burlington and Downtown Boston.

  How about this:  One Linux machine in a central location.  Classroom
systems running MS-Windows, with Cygwin.  SSH to Linux machine.  Use SSH X11
forwarding and the X server that comes with Cygwin, and you can run X11
programs as well.  Not only does that give them a real Unix system, but it
nicely demonstrates Unix's excellent remote access capabilities.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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