X.Org Server 1.11 Released 145
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An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix is reporting that X.Org Server 1.11 has been officially released to users of Linux and other operating systems. This time around their reporting is more detailed than the official release announcement."
Re:Do we need network transparency? (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe RD doesn't have a lot of use for the average desktop user, but it is used in the corporate world and it is used by power users. Just because *you* don't use it doesn't mean nobody does.
Here are some of the use cases where remote X has been important to me:
You could summarize these in the way that, for power use(r)s, the number of users is very different from the number of computers. For starters, I'm not going to buy extra monitors, keyboards and mice for all my machines, just because some desktop user thinks remote X is obsolete. In the case of supercomputers and similar specialist machines, it is physically impossible for all users to sit by the same computer. Plus it would be expensive (money, time, environment) for everyone to get there.
Many people argue that remote X can be replaced by more platform-independent systems like VNC. In some cases that is true; in fact, there are cases where remote X does not work, for example when the OpenGL/CL code need to run on the same machine as the rest of the program. On the other hand, VNC is often much heavier on the network, as it needs to transfer the entire bitmapped screen. For example, my fluid mechanics work involved relatively simple 3D modelling, and it worked fine over a 1-megabit ADSL and cable, but VNC is often sluggish even on a LAN.