[email protected] wrote:
have is atrocious. This makes it difficult to use Macs remotely. Apple abandoned the UNIX X11 layer for their applications.
Ah, I see where you're going. I still maintain that Apple never abandoned X11. To the contrary, Apple never embraced it. Originally, Apple used NeXT's Display PostScript system but they switched to Display PDF early on. DPDF is faster and more secure, it's better at being device independent, and Apple doesn't have to pay Adobe for PostScript licenses.
The inclusion of an X server, originally XFree86, later X.Org, was for UNIX geeks like me who wanted the best of both worlds.
Apple's VNC-based remote desktop system? It's close to bog-standard VNC. If that's atrocious then I guess VNC itself is atrocious. That said, I've never had any problems with it. Apple's VNC server isn't as fast as Tiger but it is solid and it works reliably over SSH tunnels with every VNC client I've used against it.
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