X is a protocol that has worked very well over the years. Other operating systems with their own display systems don't even come close to what X provides. How many times I have wanted to bring up NT applications remotely and have had to resort to a kludge such as PC Anywhere and VNC. Don't get me wrong, they have a purpose and work fairly well. But if NT had a network based display system they wouldn't be neccessary.
And arbitrarily killing X because it is big and bloated -- come on. It takes years to get something like that right. Over the years since these free OS's have been available there have been attempts at providing other display systems, but nothing has been able to unseat X. There needs to be a viable alternative, and I haven't seen anything that comes close.
So, please, just make sure the new display system allows me to display my applications remotely, and allow me to work from home without hoakey kludges.
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X is a protocol that has worked very well over the years. Other operating systems with their own display systems don't even come close to what X provides. How many times I have wanted to bring up NT applications remotely and have had to resort to a kludge such as PC Anywhere and VNC. Don't get me wrong, they have a purpose and work fairly well. But if NT had a network based display system they wouldn't be neccessary.
And arbitrarily killing X because it is big and bloated -- come on. It takes years to get something like that right. Over the years since these free OS's have been available there have been attempts at providing other display systems, but nothing has been able to unseat X. There needs to be a viable alternative, and I haven't seen anything that comes close.
So, please, just make sure the new display system allows me to display my applications remotely, and allow me to work from home without hoakey kludges.