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

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Some *BSD folk are worried about systemd being not availabe on *BSD,
and that prevents Gnome from being an option for the desktop on that
platform. Hence, some thought emulating systemd is the way to go.

As for 'us', I see BSD as part of 'us'. Competition is good, otherwise
we have stagnation. Choice is good too (most of the time).

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:32 AM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 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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