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> OpenBSD invests a great deal here. They have their own fork of Xorg (or was that XFree86?) that runs not as root. As far as I know that's unique amongst libre
by creshal 10y ago
> OpenBSD invests a great deal here. They have their own fork of Xorg (or was that XFree86?) that runs not as root. As far as I know that's unique amongst libre *nixen.
It's a standard feature of Xorg nowadays, but it's only a feature of vanilla Xorg for a few years.
- Santosh83 10y agoI'm probably misunderstanding something but on my system (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) the X server runs as root & not as my user.
- creshal 10y agoUbuntu does not enable it by default, as it mixes poorly with some drivers: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Rootless https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Rootless AMD only added KMS to their proprietary driver last year, and Nvidia this year (and IIRC only in a beta driver so far); and systemd makes the permission handling a lot easier. So Ubuntu will transition to it eventually, but didn't have all puzzle pieces until too recently for even 16.04 LTS.