Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

Thomas Mueller mueller23 at insightbb.com
Thu Aug 23 08:05:38 UTC 2012


> So this statement in the WikiP is false?

>     systemd is Linux-only by design, as it relies upon features such as
>     cgroups and fanotify.[6] Debian is avoiding the adoption of systemd due
>     to this issue.[7]

> --
> Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. 

I read an article online about some Linux constructs make it very difficult to port some software to BSD.

This included systemd, also Xfce and GNOME 3.

I figure this is why GNOME 3, out for some time now, has not yet been ported to FreeBSD ports or NetBSD pkgsrc.


Tom


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