CRcrazyloglad·May 28, 2016
The 'you can install linux, arcan and durden and then run normal applications' assertion is correct. That's how I am using it. The screenshots were taken on OSX because that was the only handy thing I could do the video recording on at the time. It's possible to 'test it out' with X/libsdl as a backend.
The actual setup is a bit hairy on most distributions because everything brings in X as a dependency, but I have both Alpine Linux and Ubuntu16.04 running it here without X (or dbus or pulseaudio or systemd or ...) Here [1] is some proof and [2] are my rough notes on how I did that.
The whitelist part is entirely optional, it's only there for really security paranoid stuff later on (sandboxing policies and chain-of-trust starting). ARCAN_CONNPATH=durden /some/bin style 'launching' is entirely possible.
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e relation with Wayland, but there will be support for connecting applications that speak wayland, and other protocols for that matter.
[1] http://cubeupload.com/im/lmBeMk.png
[2] https://github.com/letoram/arcan/wiki/linux-egl