On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:47:30PM -0500, Bill Bogstad wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Rich Pieri <[email protected]> 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. -- Mike Small [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
