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Re:Apache Guacamole by fhd2 on Saturday December 04, 2021 @04:14PM (#29444373)
Well, networking always requires some sort of client software, calling it "clientless" because most systems most likely already have the required software rubbed me the wrong way.

But I think I get it now, it's probably a tongue in cheek reference to "serverless" :P

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Re:Apache Guacamole by myownpetard on Saturday December 04, 2021 @05:25PM (#29444860)
I'm with you. I was confused by that term. Why not 'browser based remote desktop'? I've never heard anything happening in a browser called clientless before. In fact it is usually explicitly called a client, e.g. client side rendering.
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Re:Apache Guacamole by codezero on Monday December 06, 2021 @12:41PM (#29462918)
That’s a good point. Avoiding calling it browser based and using a euphemism like client-less probably should have annoyed me more.
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