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posted by janrinok on Friday February 20 2015, @01:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-perhaps-it-will-work dept.

Earlier this week, KDE developer David Edmundson described in his blog how KDE would be tied to logind and timedated but not systemd itself, at least according to his claim that "The init system is one part of systemd that doesn't affect us at all, and any other could be used.".

Later, in the blog comments, he clarifies that starting with plasma 5.5, in 6 months, they'll drop "legacy" support, according to a decision taken in the plasma sprint.

Even if one can only guess why there is no formal announcement, it seems clear - unless somehow there is a shim or emulator, not only for logind but also for timedated, in 6 months KDE will be unusable unless you are running systemd. And the blog entry makes it clear that the plan is to remove more and more functionality from KDE and use systemd instead.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 20 2015, @08:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 20 2015, @08:27PM (#147564)

    Ha! Well played... I loved (LOVED!) my Commodore gear and had nearly forgotten that it was, in fact, running a Microsoft OS. Still, my c64 was utterly awesome and now I'm off to eBay for a trip down memory lane... :-)

  • (Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday February 20 2015, @09:07PM

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Friday February 20 2015, @09:07PM (#147586)

    Yeah, the 64 was awesome. Only reason I knew it was running Microsoft BASIC was because I saw the copyright for BASIC 7.0 on a C128 start screen many years later, thanks to emulation.