On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:09 AM, ADRA <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's baffling to me that anyone is still using X Window (no 's', by the > way) > > in 2010. > > People still use Unix command line tools decades after its use. Just > because its old doesn't mean that its bad.
I never said such thing. > Do you really think that > changing the desktop language abstraction will magically wipe away the > single worst feature in most Linux systems: Display drivers. They will > always make the difference between performance and not. Most of my > problems with X over the years (and there have been many) have related > to buggy, broken drivers doing stupid or just plain wrong things. Do > you think that hanging the visual screen paradigm will really cause > all these problems go away? > Of course not, but these problems are not unique to X. > > > The idea of a remote window display was revolutionary when it came out, > but > > it just didn't live up to the expectations. > > Firstly, when running locally, X applications run almost directly > against graphics hardware anyway, so the 'protocol overhead' or > whatever propaganda you've been knocked over the head with over the > years just isn't true. I was never talking about running locally. The bottom line if you log on to a remote session between two hosts on different networks (e.g. logging from home into the VPN of your company), RDP leaves X Window in the dust, even if you use optimizers such as nx. -- 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.
