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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Jun 21

GNOME has given up all pretence of being cross platform at this point and is happy with hard dependencies on systemd.

KDE has not and the KDE Wayland compositor runs on FreeBSD (I haven't actually tried it on unmodified FreeBSD, but it runs nicely on CheriBSD on Morello, completely memory safe including the drivers!). Most of the new Wayland stuff runs on the same DRI drivers as X.org. It looks as if there are around a dozen other Wayland compositors in FreeBSD ports that use wlroots, I'm not sure if there are others that don't.

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That is just misrepresenting the facts in bad faith. Gnome has not "given up" on BSD. They wanted to move forward with features which relied on systemd on Linux and reached out to communities like FreeBSD, trying to work out solutions through with BSD could provide similar capabilities. There was close to zero interest especially by the BSD community.
So the choice was to drop working on these features or drop support for platforms to willing to meet the project half way.
Seems like an obvious choice to me.

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