FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system that has roots in Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which itself originated from research conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1970s.
The OS is known for its advanced networking features, security capabilities, and freedom-focused licensing, finding use in a wide range of hardware ranging from embedded systems to being the backbone of major cloud services.
Unfortunately, it looks like KDE’s Plasma Login Manager won’t be working on it, as an accepted merge request sees the focus turn to compatibility on Linux systems.
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All these articles…
I listened to the Tech over Tea episode with the GNOME guy about their new systemd dependence. Any regular distro uses systemd, everything is free software.
Nobody is forcing anything.
KDE is building new tech, streamlined, minimal, performant. And yeah that uses systemd.
But if people want to generalize components so they can work on OpenRC or worse init systems, I highly doubt that they will block it.
Or that they will block launching
startplasma-waylandfrom any other login manager, which currently already works. This is just their login manager, with way more features that are crucial for making it a windows competitor, like headless RDP support.I don’t want to move to systemd, I’m happy with OpenRC. And I hope this move doesn’t force systemd on those of us using Linux and KDE.
That being said some devs (Gentoo devs?) cherry-picked some tiny parts from systemd and made packages for those parts so that when you want to install something with a hard dependency on systemd but you’re using another init system (like Gentoo’s default OpenRC) you will be fine without actually installing the whole systemd thing.
Maybe the FreeBSD folks can think of something similar, but I don’t know. Last time I looked when there was no official efforts from KDE to bring it to FreeBSD they bitched about it because it was “bloat”.
I would think that elogind should work? Is it hard dependent on systemd or logind? I thought it was the latter
PLM is hard dependent on systemd.
That’s the part that confuses me, because allegedly GNOME has a hard dependency on systemd yet in Gentoo you can install GNOME without having to install nor use sytemd. I hope this new KDE login manager can work the same or a similar way, though
That’s unfortunate
I mean, this is of course bad for people using BSD, but you can’t really fault devs for not supporting what you want. It’s FOSS. You support what you want, or you take what you get. Maybe support will come eventually, until then stick with SDDM or some other alternative.
It’s fucking systemd again isn’t it
Imagine porting systemd to FreeBSD.
BSD ppl could build a logind replacement.
I was thinking of this, being not sure whether I should even upvote this post. But then I thought whether it’s possible to design some similar system, interface wise, or would it be just too complex and inferior to what is currently used. I assume the whole systemd thing is a nightmare for FreeBSD architecture and nothing of a kind would be implemented there.
