From the article: "efficient remoting protocols do not look like X"
I'll attest to that. Back in 1999/2000 when I had to administer a 500-700 element network using HPopenView over a 128 Kbit ISDN link, the performance was "OK", but nothing to write home about. If I had a lot of work to do, I was often tempted to just head into the office, and work there.
Then, Windows XP+Remote Desktop came in vogue, and the combination of Windows XP running the HummingBird Client (Exceed was the common X-Server at the time), accessed via RDP over ISDN, was actually a very successful combination.
Net-Net - While everyone talks about how great X-Windows is from a network-transparency perspective, I've always had more success with RDP - to the point of running it on my iPhone/iPad to manage my desktop at work. I'm not even sure if they make an X-Server for the iPhone. (Edit: of course they do - http://www.appstorehq.com/ix11-xserver-iphone-32068/app)
And VNC is just plain great as well - lots of competition in that ecosystem, and is hands down the most elegant solution to manage a couple dozen desktops running in VMware workstation for Windows.
So - Given that X-Windows has always been a bit "kludgy" for Desktop Apps (And I speak as one who has been using them for well over 10 years, sometimes on a daily basis for years at a stretch), and has never really been that super as a remote-access mechanism, has likely held back the adoption of Linux as a Desktop OS, AND will also likely be still supported even as Wayland starts to come on board - I say this is a GREAT announcement, and look forward to the community coming onboard and developing the Wayland ecosystem.
If you want remote access, NX is much better than pure X (nomachine has some great tools), and is on par (if not better) than RDP (in my opinion, anyway). I prefer straight SSH, but this is obviously not the same use case as yours.
I'll attest to that. Back in 1999/2000 when I had to administer a 500-700 element network using HPopenView over a 128 Kbit ISDN link, the performance was "OK", but nothing to write home about. If I had a lot of work to do, I was often tempted to just head into the office, and work there.
Then, Windows XP+Remote Desktop came in vogue, and the combination of Windows XP running the HummingBird Client (Exceed was the common X-Server at the time), accessed via RDP over ISDN, was actually a very successful combination.
Net-Net - While everyone talks about how great X-Windows is from a network-transparency perspective, I've always had more success with RDP - to the point of running it on my iPhone/iPad to manage my desktop at work. I'm not even sure if they make an X-Server for the iPhone. (Edit: of course they do - http://www.appstorehq.com/ix11-xserver-iphone-32068/app)
And VNC is just plain great as well - lots of competition in that ecosystem, and is hands down the most elegant solution to manage a couple dozen desktops running in VMware workstation for Windows.
So - Given that X-Windows has always been a bit "kludgy" for Desktop Apps (And I speak as one who has been using them for well over 10 years, sometimes on a daily basis for years at a stretch), and has never really been that super as a remote-access mechanism, has likely held back the adoption of Linux as a Desktop OS, AND will also likely be still supported even as Wayland starts to come on board - I say this is a GREAT announcement, and look forward to the community coming onboard and developing the Wayland ecosystem.