[kwlug-disc] What is all this about systemd?

[William Park]

Why should we care about non-Linux?  Especially, when they don't are
care about Linux.  They, all combined, are like what Linux is to
Windows.
-- 
William

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 11:21:31PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> And in other news ...
> 
> A Google Summer Of Code project aimed at writing a systemd replacement
> for OpenBSD (because the systemd folk only care about Linux, not
> POSIX, and use Linux only APIs).
> 
> "The work achieved this summer was developing replacements for the
> systemd-hostnamed, systemd-localed, systemd-timedated, and
> systemd-logind utilities." ... AWESOME!
> 
> And ...
> 
> "The hope is to allow for systemd-dependent components like more
> recent versions of GNOME to now run on OpenBSD."
> 
> So, now, a desktop environment (Gnome) has a hard dependency on a
> specific init daemon (systemd) that happens to be written exclusively
> for Linux, and people are solving the issue by porting/emulating the
> problem daemon on OpenBSD (systembsd).
> 
> Hmmm ...
> 
> http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/14/09/08/0250207/gsoc-project-works-to-emulate-systemd-for-openbsd
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