It's baffling to me that anyone is still using X Window (no 's', by the way) in 2010.
The idea of a remote window display was revolutionary when it came out, but it just didn't live up to the expectations. What's even more interesting is that Microsoft Windows started from the other end (a local Windowing system) but when it came to adding remoteness, not only was it pretty quick but their remote desktop client is actually orders of magnitude better than an X Window one. RDC is faster and it supports all kinds of odd cases (mouse wheel, sound, alt-tab, etc...) that X Window never really figured out. Good riddance. -- Cédric On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:13 AM, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: > I wasn't exactly thrilled to see Ubuntu dropping Gnome for its Unity > shell as the primary way for interacting with Ubuntu Linux (though do > understand its intended to "consumerize" Linux to a wider audience > than just geeks). > > I do very much applaud this move to drop X-Windows and adoption of > OpenGL, though: > > Ubuntu abandons X server for Wayland > http://blogs.computerworld.com/17303/ubuntu_abandons_x_server_for_wayland > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
