rootless X

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wednesday 12 May 2010 08:43 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010 08:20:52 -0700
> Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Are there any future goals for Fedora regarding this? Phoronix reported
>> Ubuntu might implement this for its open source driver stack in about a
>> year.
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODIzNQ
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Rootless
>
> Already in Moblin/Meego - and from the patch I've seen there its pretty
> small, at least for KMS supported hardware. For non KMS stuff it's a
> different kettle of fish.

This is very promising, all the hard work by the FOSS graphics driver 
teams are finally paying off! This would definitely be a compelling 
reason to give up proprietary drivers for more users. :)

However I still don't understand one question, does this mean X will run 
as its own user or as a daemon and let regular "human" users interact 
with it? Or will we have one server for every one logged in using a GUI?

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.