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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>
21 <license>Creative Commons Share Alike</license>
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28 <cite date="2009-06-21"><name>Milo Casagrande</name></cite>
30 Need to work on this section, explaining people in clear words
31 what the hell is this service!
35 <title>What is the <em>Salut</em> service?</title>
38 The <em>Salut</em> service is a serverless communication service:
39 you do not need to connect and authenticate to a central server in
43 This kind of serverless messaging system is restricted to a local area
44 network and an active Internet connection is not necessary.
47 The people that use this service inside the same local area network
48 will be auto-discovered, and it will be possible to send them messages
49 and files as with other services.
52 All the modern local area networks should be able to support this kind