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Remote desktop vs. remote display

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 21, 2013 1:23 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Remote desktop vs. remote display by madscientist
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

I'm absolutely BAFFLED to learn HOW SMALL Xorg in reality is ??

"" 562,678 lines today ""

And so much controversy and bickering for something so small... even worst because if of those it counts all the "video-drivers" and other ancient stuff that could be removed... perhaps it could be half of that...

I HATE Xorg in that sense, actually it got a friend of mine laughing his guts out about my comment Linux being ready for Modern desktop... S3 Virgo, Voodoo, etc ?... c'mon Xorg... that must be a bad taste JOKE... why does that s*** has to be dragged around anytime a new release is launched !!?

Linux kernel that is very far from the biggest thing on any Linux system has "millions" of lines of code...

So about *Remote Desktop/Display* why not merge something like NX into the X codebase itself... it would put a final nail on any controversy about speed or better...

And being so small and very "modular" i can't think why does X have to be replaced, the piece meal breaking for clean up is done!... why can't it be cleaned and improved, and why not incorporate the most pertinent features of Wayland, why not make it really *Multi-Threading* and really "multi-renderer" prone ...

It might be that in the end it would be less than 1 million lines of code... patient and good documentation (good code comments) and it would require a small team to maintain...

I don't know the code, but it must be really bad to read and understand for this... but i think it would be much easier faster and better strategy, good patient a good clean up and documentation, than to try to fork the all X app base to a new system... *can't think otherwise*...


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