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8 Undesrtanding the <em>Salut</em> protocol.
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12 <credit type="author">
13 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
14 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
18 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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23 <title>What is the <em>Salut</em> service?</title>
26 The <em>Salut</em> service is a serverless communication service:
27 you do not need to connect and authenticate to a central server in
31 This kind of serverless messaging system is restricted to a local area
32 network and an active Internet connection is not necessary.
35 The people that use this service inside the same local area network
36 will be auto-discovered, and it will be possible to send them messages
37 and files as with other services.
40 All the modern local area networks should be able to support this kind