On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Andrew W. Nosenko
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Jasper St. Pierre
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Andy Tai <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> what would this mean for systems not using systemd?
>>
>>
>> Systems not using systemd already fall back to ConsoleKit, which does not
>> have any maintainer. We don't support features like suspend or hibernate on
>> ConsoleKit anymore and it's pretty much on life support only at this point.
>>
>> For 3.12, we will keep the old gnome-session and gdm code that uses
>> ConsoleKit and fork/exec ourselves in the case where you compile without
>> logind support, but I wouldn't expect it to be around much longer.
>>
>> Do you have any specific examples of systems not using systemd that you
>> would like to run GNOME on?
>>
>
> Did you heard about FreeBSD?

How many people use FreeBSD? I doubt its a significant enough number
for us to spend our time and resources on it.

> PS. Do you know any OS that _uses_ systemd at all beside Linux?

But apparently its the only free OS worth caring about. I think Jasper
was asking about distros as I'm pretty sure he is well aware that
systemd doesn't run on an archaic OSs, such as FreeBSD.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124
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