Rating and comments for Xming

Commercial Software

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Xmanager
X-Win32

Average score 2.96 (based on 72 votes)

given by Anonymous on May 4, 2007

given by Anonymous on May 17, 2007

"X Window", not "X Windows"

given by Anonymous on May 24, 2007

given by Anonymous on May 26, 2007

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

given by Nebelwerfer on June 6, 2007

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

given by Anonymous on June 20, 2007

VERY GOOD PRODUCT

given by Anonymous on December 12, 2007

given by vin on January 26, 2008

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

given by Anonymous on July 29, 2008

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.

given by Anonymous on August 18, 2008

Open source on paper, payware in practice!

given by Anonymous on January 20, 2009

not open source

given by Anonymous on February 1, 2009

given by Anonymous on April 16, 2009

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

given by Anonymous on May 4, 2009

Rated 1 for not being truly open source.

given by Anonymous on May 6, 2009

"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. ;)

given by Anonymous on May 26, 2009

given by Anonymous on July 19, 2009

given by IcI on August 18, 2009

Small, quick, efficient, free

Choose all four, not only two.

given by Anonymous on January 12, 2010

good alternative to cygwin-X

given by Anonymous on January 16, 2010

Not open source!

given by m43 on August 30, 2010

There's plenty of real *Open source* ssh and putty stuff for MS-Windows on the market that it's simply not worth bothering with crap like Xming.

given by Rob Miller on March 4, 2011

given by Sri on March 14, 2011

Very nice, still needs some polishing over the top to make it a straight away competitor to xmanager.

Hope ill work on it when i get some time.

given by Anonymous on November 15, 2011

It's commercial soft that hides behind Open Source + a forced "donor" for current releases. Regarding this distribution policy I will not even think about a donor and also will not give a single try to the 4 year old publicly available outdated version.

given by Anonymous on February 18, 2012

Not entirely open source.

given by Anonymous on April 12, 2012

Xming is not open source any more and should be removed.