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

Khalid Baheyeldin kb at 2bits.com
Mon Sep 8 23:21:31 EDT 2014


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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