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First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @10:20AM from the reinventing-x-but-better dept.

munwin99 writes: For the longest time, when bringing up Wayland a recurring question was 'what about network transparency?!' Well, Samsung's Derek Foreman has today published the set of Wayland patches for providing Wayland network transparency by pushing the Wayland protocol over TCP/IP.

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Re:It's 2016 and I can't even easily run Wayland y by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-10 10:54 · Score: 5, Interesting

Previously, the developers always refused to consider network transparency, and heated discussions followed. If now it is accepted, it is newsworthy for those who care about the feature, even though nobody can actually run Wayland yet.