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



On 11/3/2015 10:31 AM, Thompson, David wrote:
> Systemd drama aside, an unprivileged Xorg sounds very useful.

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.

-- 
Rich P.



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