RE: replacing X Window System !

["Döhr, Markus ICC-H" <Markus.Doehr@siegenia-aubi.com>]

> > 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, 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.


Just my EUR 0.02


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