Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932295AbWEQAQo (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 20:16:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932298AbWEQAQX (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 20:16:23 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47298 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932295AbWEQAPn (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 20:15:43 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: replacing X Window System ! Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 01:15:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: agrajag.inprovide.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.15 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oktSved77B1AQ6LRX4Bd3Vgd0xc= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1653 Lines: 33 "D?hr, Markus ICC-H" writes: >> > First of all, your assumptions are incorrect. Modern versions of X >> > are not old, unoptimised, will do remote sessions, etc. >> >> Remote sessions have been there as long as the DISPLAY >> environment variable - I think even X10.4, 2 decades and more >> ago, could do that. I know that it worked just fine 18 years >> ago with X11R1 (aah... building that from source on a 25mz >> Sun3 took a little while). (Anybody know when the first >> instance of pointing 'xmelt' at another user's machine for >> amusement was? :) > [...] > > Although one has to admit that working with remote X terminals over > a SSH/WAN/VPN-connection is far from usefull, It depends on what programs you run. Emacs runs perfectly fine over a slow modem. Firefox is usually very unhappy even on a fast LAN. In general, applications that render an image locally and send that to the X server for display will run badly over a remove connection. Apps that send text and drawing commands to the server, and let it take care of rendering run quite well. > Microsoft?s RDP protocol does a much better job there. However, > there?s NX (http://www.nomachine.com/) and other products but out of > the box X11 it?s quite slow over higher latency connections. RDP is more like VNC, AFAIK. It serves a different purpose. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@inprovide.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/