Over at Phoronix, Eric Griffith has attempted to set the record straight on X and Wayland, with assistance from X/Wayland developer Daniel Stone. He looks at the failings of X and the corresponding "fixings of Wayland", along with some misconceptions about the two and some generic advantages for Wayland. "'X is Network Transparent.' Wrong. [It's] not. Core X and DRI-1 were network transparent. No one uses either one. Shared-Memory, DRI-2 and DRI-3000 are NOT network transparent, they do NOT work over the network. Modern day X comes down to synchronous, poorly done VNC. If it was poorly done, async, VNC then maybe we could make it work. But [it's] not. Xlib is synchronous (and the movement to XCB is a slow one) which makes networking a NIGHTMARE."

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