Rating and comments for Xming

"X Window", not "X Windows"

I use it both with coLinux and PuTTY and it's awesome.

Based on the homepage it only supports 32-bit Windows. Major drawback if you like me uses Vista 64.

VERY GOOD PRODUCT

excellent "Open source" tool, Light weight tool....

It's open source, but in practice it is impossible to obtain the latest version without paying for it. The freely available version (nearly 1.5 years old) crashes on me all the time.

Open source on paper, payware in practice!

not open source

This is NOT open source. You cannot download the newest source of the software.

Rated 1 for not being truly open source.

"Rated 1 for not being truly open source." Same here, it'a shame, really!

BTW, I don't think that releasing the source of unreleased binaries is required by the GPL, so it's technically legal. However getting to be a "donor" and releasing what you got to the publoc afterwards would be 100% legal as well. I hope some "donor" reads the above sentence and gets the idea, that would force the author of the program to be a little more sensible. ;)

Small, quick, efficient, free

Choose all four, not only two.

good alternative to cygwin-X

Not open source!