Observed arrival · 2026-08-29
YARD, Yet Another Remote Desktop—Except It Wants Zero-Copy Rust
YARD is an open-source Linux remote-desktop engine built around GPU-resident frames, hardware encoding, sub-frame pacing, and Noise Protocol encryption.
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YARD describes a Linux-first capture and transport path using DRM/KMS, DMA-BUF handles, hardware encoding, sub-frame pacing, and WebCodecs on the client side. Its documentation is organized around 115 architecture decision records, with sections covering capture, encoding, transport, cryptography, input, audio, display, and release. The visible reference implementation is v0.1.0-alpha, while the page frames the larger specification as a target v1.0.0 architecture.
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