Why did the web win the space of remote applications and X not?
- by Martin Josefsson
The X Window System is 25 years old, it had it's birthday yesterday (on the 15'th).
As you probably are aware of, one of it's most important features is the separation of the server side and the client side in a way that neither Microsoft's, Apples or Wayland's windowing systems have.
Back in the days (sorry for the ambiguous phrasing) many…