Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly”

Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by martinald on Friday June 28, 2019 @09:10PM (#20310146)

I thought with the later versions of RDP it somewhat works like remote X, where can pass through a lot of the context and the rendering is done on the clients GPU instead of being rasterized and sent over the network? I've found RDP very snappy in later versions, with very crisp rendering even over relatively low bandwidth connections (order of magnitudes better than VNC).

There's also remoteapp which allows you to just run one program remotely, but haven't got much experience with this.

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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by jacquesm on Saturday June 29, 2019 @08:56AM (#20312311)

RDP got a lot faster due to tapping in at different levels in the rendering engine, but those are mostly optimizations and not how the whole thing is meant to be viewed, it is a 'remote display protocol' that transports what is already visible on some remote screen or memory buffer to another computer for viewing. Shortcuts and optimizations don't really change that, whereas 'X' is at heart a client-server solution.

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