X-Win32 is really
useful to those of us who should be running
Unix or
Linux, but just can't give up our fancy
games or
wordprocessing utilities. It
utilizes the ability of Unix to divert the
display to another
IP address. That means that you can cause your favorite Unix machine to shoot its user interface over to your
monitor. You can then use your
Windows-based
computer just like you would use the machine you're logged into if you were actually at the
console itself.
I have personally found this useful at school where I often like to do my programming at home but prefer the facilities of the labs like DCL. Also, it's very useful at work when I need to go into a bunch of code that's located on one of the Unix machines in the building. This wouldn't be a problem if I wasn't forced to use a Windows machine for my tech-writing of Adobe Framemaker. X-Win32 allows me to basically run Linux AND Windows at the same time, giving me most of the functionality of both! Yay!