Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 1st Oct 2009 21:02 UTC
We reported earlier on a blog post entitled "Ubuntu Report Card (2009)" where the author detailed how they felt the Ubuntu experience had improved over the years. In a follow-up series of articles looking at the future, Tanner Helland has written 10 different broadly-scoped feature requests that [he] 'and many others would like to see by the time Ubuntu 10.10 rolls around'.
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Member since:2006-01-02
It's clear that, as usual, you don't know what you are talking about and you are proud to flaunt your ignorance on the subject. There are problems with the X11 protocol, sure, but the fact that it uses IPC (like EVERY OTHER MAJOR OS) is not one of them.
But really, have you measured the latency of IPC? Do you know that's why it's slow? Or do you just assume because someone else mentioned how they think network transparency is worthless and you just ran with it? I'm inclined to think the latter.
Member since:2008-02-26
It's clear that, as usual, ...
The X protocol is used over IPC instead of a network, which is why it doesn't matter that they removed the network. That is what I wanted to say, and you know it, but ad-hominem attacks work better.
Of course I know that from third parties that write about X design. No(sane)body can possibly bear looking at X11 source for long periods of time. I did it once to debug a driver that was bothering me and won't do that again. Surely not to win an argument with you.
Anyways that I screwed up a term doesn't help with my apps going down when it dies because of the convenient bad-driver(TM) or getting lagged i/o or other marvelous side-effects of using X as opposed to some superior system like Windows 3.0 GDI.
Linux could do fine with even that and would do if it weren't that X gets all the drivers and support.
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2008-02-26
No it doesn't hit the network but it still uses IPC and the same protocols as if it were. Saying that it doesn't hit the network is like saying that it doesn't format your hard drive. True, but hardly relevant.
Latency, caused primarily by the protocols it uses for IPC is the main culprit for bad user experience.
Graphics cards and drivers can be at fault some times but 2D performance which is what should be used most of the time still now is a solved problem and 3D support in X11 a lot more than enough for drawing windows and controls.
X has other problems such as applications going down when it dies. One would expect a network protocol designed by 3yo'lds would keep that from happening. And it would be great to have "that" network protocol in our desktops. Just not X or at least not Xorg.