>>15Hell no.
LinuxFr.org : Systemd use a lot of Linux only technologies (cgroups, udev, fanotify, timerfd, signalfd, etc). Do you really think the Linux API has been taking the role of the POSIX API and the other systems are irrelevant ?
Lennart : Yes, I don't think BSD is really too relevant anymore, and I think that this implied requirement for compatibility with those systems when somebody hacks software for the free desktop or ecosystem is a burden, and holds us back for little benefit.
I can't find the quote, but he's also stated that he doesn't care about POSIX or cross-platform design, as opposed to answering ``yes'' when someone else asked the question. Which is, frankly a good thing. Given systemd's problems (see e.g.
http://ewontfix.com/14/ and
http://ewontfix.com/15/ ) I would sooner switch to FreeBSD than let it on my system, and Lennart, Gnome, and the rest of the RedHat bunch ignoring FreeBSD means they won't fuck it up.
Pulse is okay once you rip out consolekit and associated baggage (I don't have to write
clean_up_pulse.sh scripts anymore that blindly rm magic files), but I wish OSS was still a viable solution.