Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?

Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux? by the_why_of_y on Sunday November 23, 2014 @07:16AM (#8648569)

> I'm sure most people here don't even know it's the only OS in the world allowing you run Xorg as an unprivileged user.

Maybe the first, but these articles claim Fedora can do it too, although currently you need to edit a config file, and it only works if you invoke startx(1), not when logging in from gdm.

http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/14446.html http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/14268.html

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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux? by ajs124 on Saturday November 29, 2014 @05:49PM (#8675358)

I really don't want to be _that_ guy that brings up archlinux, but…

"X is now rootless with the help of systemd-logind, this also means that it must be launched from the same virtual terminal as was used to log in, redirecting stderr also breaks rootless login. […]"

https://www.archlinux.org/news/xorg-server-116-is-now-availa...

This is obviously not a feature of archlinux itself, but an upstream x.org feature.

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