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Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

Posted Oct 25, 2012 21:24 UTC (Thu) by njs (guest, #40338)
In reply to: Wayland and Weston 1.0 released by nix
Parent article: Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

> often they were scientific users, running huge mathematical monsters on beefy remote systems

I'm amused that xpra has become the feasibility proof for wayland remoting, and here your argument for X is the entire reason xpra exists in the first place -- the X protocol is so unbearably sucky at this exact use case. (Home DSL -> university compute cluster = nasty latency, university wifi is flaky and compute jobs are long, screen/tmux are insufficient because you need visualizations, and PhDs have to be procrastinated on *somehow*...)


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