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I'm not a huge fan, but dbus at least runs on FreeBSD and others.



FreeBSD developers are actually looking at something like systemd themselves. The fact that systemd itself doesn't run on it is just the consequence of POSIX being inadequate for its implementation, since it relies on a bunch of Linux specific features, like cgroups etc.

I am personally in the camp that doesn't mind that, Linux users should get the best possible software given their system capabilities, not the lowest common denominator one just for the sake of it. (Free)BSD developers are also not looking to make sure their stuff works with Linux, which I think it's a valid approach.

GNOME itself does exist on the BSDs, by the way knocking down the argument of systemd being a hard dependency of GNOME along the way.


> FreeBSD developers are actually looking at something like systemd themselves

If this claim were true it still is beside the point of my comment, that systemd itself has a "Linux only, and we don't care" approach, and dbus for the moment is not that.

> GNOME itself does exist on the BSDs

Yes the ports tree is a wonderful place for those things to sit for those who are interested and for a larger portion to not bother installing them. I don't know how many patches they applied to get it working or what the cost and effect of those patches may be over time.




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