Messages in this thread | | | From | "Döhr, Markus ICC-H" <> | Subject | RE: replacing X Window System ! | Date | Wed, 17 May 2006 02:01:45 +0200 |
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> > 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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