An alternative which might make your linux machines
more fun would be to install Cygwin on your windows box,
including XFree86. Then you could ssh to one of them, and
run whatever unix software you like over the network.
I've got Cygwin on my work box for using GCC when I need to do something that I can't do on the shared machine (if the cpu usage goes over 30 seconds on the pair.com account, it will kill the process... for good reason).
At home I just use PuTTY and ssh into whatever machine I want to use - but I can't use the graphical stuff (assuming you are suggesting for graphical cases - hence XFree86).
I haven't tried the Cygwin XWindows though - maybe I'll give that a shot. I've used VNC in the past for basic stuff - checking when rendering is done and such, but not XFree86 over the net.
Thanks for the tip.
(for this particular case, I've found a way to side step that need (Gimp scripting) for now, but might find down the road that I will need it, and will keep it in mind)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.