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Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

Posted Oct 24, 2012 6:03 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Wayland and Weston 1.0 released by daniels
Parent article: Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

Indeed, X's remoting is really bad. It was only ever usable on the sort of high-speed low-latency university LAN where it was developed. It was never intended for use over the internet. And today, even on LANs, X's performance is significantly worse than alternatives.


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