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[Discuss] Debian adds another systemd dependency, Busybox drops it



On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:47:30PM -0500, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Tangentially, we've had genuinely unprivileged X servers for a long time.
> > VNC's standalone X servers do not require root and to the best of my
> > knowledge never have. Combined with DirectVNC, a Linux framebuffer VNC
> > client, and you can have X without root without systemd hackery.
> 
> True.   But I think most people want X servers that take advantages of
> all the graphics acceleration features in modern graphics cards.
> Those X servers have in my experience usually required running them as
> root.

OpenBSD's privilege separated X uses acceleration though doesn't
yet support as many graphics chipsets as X on Linux. E.g. Nouveau
(for nvidia) hasn't made it over yet, but perhaps that will change
now that someone at NetBSD is working on it.

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Mike Small
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