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6 <link type="seealso" xref="create-account"/>
8 Undesrtanding the <em>Salut</em> protocol.
10 <revision version="0.1" date="2009-08-12" status="draft"/>
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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24 <title>What is the <em>Salut</em> service?</title>
27 <cite date="2009-06-21">Milo Casagrande</cite>
29 Need to work on this section, explaining people in clear words
30 what the hell is this service!
35 The <em>Salut</em> service is a serverless communication service:
36 you do not need to connect and authenticate to a central server in
40 This kind of serverless messaging system is restricted to a local area
41 network and an active Internet connection is not necessary.
44 The people that use this service inside the same local area network
45 will be auto-discovered, and it will be possible to send them messages
46 and files as with other services.
49 All the modern local area networks should be able to support this kind