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Bad NIH, good NIH

Bad NIH, good NIH

Posted Mar 11, 2013 9:30 UTC (Mon) by gioele (subscriber, #61675)
In reply to: Bad NIH, good NIH by Serge
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

> BTW, it was kind of fun listening to "X isn't network-transparent any more" while running some GUI tools over ssh -Y.

The presenter explicitly said that "X is network-capable, not network-transparent". It means that you can run X applications over the network, but the software has to handle it as a special case now, given that the current normality is the use of shared memory buffers.


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