Seriously - if there is some compelling reason not to move whole-hog over to Linux, then look into getting a PC X server for your workstations. Unless you're writing ncurses stuff and need to test it, I guess. You still need a term prog to do compiling, etc but the quality of your term prog isn't as important if all you're gonna do is type 'make'. It's also only X11R5, which is only usually an issue for really graphics-intensive X apps, IME.Īnother option for you may be to look into Samba sharing your src directories and accessing them via Windows, and then using Win32 editing software to do your coding. You can also get buy with MI/X, which used to be free, but this still requires an ssh-able terminal prog (or something that will tunnel your X session) to be acceptably secure. Xwin-32 is fine Exceed is nicer, and comes with an interesting embedded mode where your X client windows mix in with your Win32 apps' windows, instead of an X root window plunked over your desktop. My advice is to invest in a site license for a PC X server. Unless you have become comfortable with screen, or don't mind the slow updates of multi-window Emacs in an overexpanded terminal window - or whatever you're using - development via 24x80 windows, all requring new logins each time you want another window, is a miserable existence for the progger. Assuming upgrading those PCs to Linux isn't an option, I would recommend foregoing trying to do development via term progs.
