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X's Network Transparency Has Wound Up Mostly Being a Failure

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 10 2018, @08:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the maybe-Y-will-be-better dept.

canopic jug writes:

Chris Siebenmann over on his personal web page at the University of Toronto writes about X networking. He points out two main shortcomings preventing realization of the original vision of network transparancy. One is network speed and latency. The other is a too narrow scope for X's communication facilities.

X's network transparency was not designed as 'it will run xterm well'; originally it was to be something that should let you run almost everything remotely, providing a full environment. Even apart from the practical issues covered in Daniel Stone's slide presentation [warning for PDF], it's clear that it's been years since X could deliver a real first class environment over the network. You cannot operate with X over the network in the same way that you do locally. Trying to do so is painful and involves many things that either don't work at all or perform so badly that you don't want to use them.

Remote display protocols remain useful, but it's time to admit another way will have to be found. What's the latest word on Wayland or Mir?

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 10 2018, @08:30AM (5 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday February 10 2018, @08:30AM (#635938) Homepage

    Sounds like Jews are trying to co-opt nerds into SystemD-like display protocols.

    Jews == CIA. Maybe we can get rid of those columns, and replace them with people who know how to build.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Chromium_One on Saturday February 10 2018, @08:45AM (3 children)

    by Chromium_One (4574) on Saturday February 10 2018, @08:45AM (#635941)

    Didn't you used to have some standards? Like, this is crapflooding, not trolling.

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    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 10 2018, @08:51AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday February 10 2018, @08:51AM (#635943) Homepage

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    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday February 10 2018, @08:56AM (1 child)

      by Bot (3902) on Saturday February 10 2018, @08:56AM (#635945) Journal

      Yeah, I mean, capitalizing "jews", come on.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10 2018, @05:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10 2018, @05:06PM (#636054)

    Stupid people say stupid things. Shocking but true based on evidence.