X-Window Terminal Emulation

[Larry Scheetz]

I currently use Reflections on Hpux-11.0 and have seen Kea as terminal Emulation (X-windows) packages. We need an X-window client on many Pc's. Can anyone suggest a package that may be free or less expensive than Reflections? Thank you for your time.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Larry,

It all depends on the per license cost. Hummingbird Exceed is another good product. You can check on a multiple user corporate license instead of a per copy license. You pay relatively less price for say a 10 copy enterprise / corporate license than 10 copies of individual licenses.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Larry,

Free software

http://x.cygwin.com/

check this thread.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=30376

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Chris Vail]

I am an evangelist for Citrix Metaframe for Unix. I have been using it for years with no troubles. Its badly marketed: you'll have trouble finding someone to sell it to you.
Its cheap because it shares licenses with other Citrix products on your LAN. A 3 user license is all you need if you're using any other Citrix product--and this less than $2000. License expansions can be bought from a variety of sources if you need it.
Its secure, compact and tight. It does NOT require an X server at all. It uses the X server built into Unix.
You can use the Citrix clients (which are free and downloadable from Citrix.com) or enable their nfuse option and use your web browser instead.
In any case, they offer a free 99 user 120 day trial version. It'll cost you nothing to check it out. Go to their website for the customer service phone number. They'll overnight the demo disk to you.
One of the truly lovely things is that the client is so small. Cygwin, Reflections, Exceed and all those other X servers are HUGE and difficult to maintain and install. MFU is easy on the sysadmin, and even easy on the end-users.

Check it out.
Chris

[TwoProc]

I use and like cygwin as per the comment above. Works great, is cheap (free) and less filling. Best part about cygwin is that it's not just Xwindows, it gives a really full set of tools, unix shell, awk, sed, grep, etc. AND the shell can run dos commands (.exe's). Cool, cool, cool.