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Status Update for Gnome3 on OpenBSD

posted by LaminatorX on Friday February 21 2014, @07:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the Gnomes-for-Theo dept.

joekiser writes:

"Antoine Jacoutot has given a status update for GNOME users of OpenBSD, including a short video. The GNOME release has been updated to 3.10.2, and auto-mounting of devices is now supported through a new helper program, toad. Now is a great time for desktop users to test the upcoming OpenBSD release. The ports tree was recently locked for stability testing ahead of the 5.5 release, meaning that recent -CURRENT builds are very close to what will be released in May. Antoine also addresses the upcoming issues non-Linux systems face with GNOME, such as the upcoming hard dependency on systemd."

[ED Note: I ran an OpenBSD router box years ago when tinkering about with an old PII with four NICs seemed worthwhile. The OS lived up to it's rep, but it never occurred to me to use it for a desktop system. Are any Soylentils using OpenBSD for a GNOME-based workstation?]

 
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  • (Score: 1) by caseih on Saturday February 22 2014, @12:35AM

    by caseih (2744) on Saturday February 22 2014, @12:35AM (#4627)

    Even if you are on a Linux machine that does not use systemd as process 1, if you run Gnome 3 you have to run parts of systemd, such as logind. systemd is also tied fairly closely to the Linux kernel, although I'm sure systemd could be hacked to work rather well on BSD, with either support added to the BSD kernel, or some other kind of layer.

    So either you port systemd to BSD, or you modify Gnome 3 to run on BSD without systemd.

    As a side note, after updating my Linux Mint Debian Edition box to update 8, I found suspend when I close the lid didn't work anymore. I'm not sure if this is a bug (IE intended behavior) or not, but you can fix it by by setting init to systemd. Everything seems to work fine, although all the init scripts are currently old-school rc scripts. I'll eventually switch them for their systemd-native service files, which are already in place actually.