Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday April 3, 2013 @12:51AM from the thought-no-one-used-that-feature dept.

New submitter Skrapion writes "One month ago, an independent developer submitted patches to the Wayland's Weston compositor which adds support for FreeRDP, an open-source remote desktop protocol. Now, after six revisions, the remote desktop code has been merged into the trunk. While remote desktop has been prototyped in Weston once before by Wayland developer Kristian Høgsberg, this is the first time Wayland/Weston has officially supported the feature. For a summary of why we can expect Wayland's remote desktop to surpass X.Org's network transparency, see Daniel Stone's excellent talk from Linux.conf.au."

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Re:And why is this better than VNC? by LordLimecat · 2013-04-03 01:52 · Score: 3, Funny

Because VNC is slow and sucks.
Re:Those who do not understand X11 by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-03 04:23 · Score: 2, Funny

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