On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > part of). For example, if eventually you can't run gnome without > systemd where does that leave bsd gentoo users?
Is Mesa support on BSD really all that up-to-date these days? I don't expect that they keep up with bugfixes that well. For instance, Radeon works best with KMS + Gallium and afaik that has no driver for BSD at all. I don't think GNOME Shell is stable on BSD at all. > Gentoo is about > choice, and various upstream efforts are moving in the direction of > giving users only one choice - take it or leave it. If you're arguing purely on the basis of BSD, I think it's a lost cause. They're so far behind Linux that it's not even funny anymore. > How do you > install KDE and Gnome on the same system when they eventually want > different sysvinit implementations. I doubt that's going to happen, though. No DE other than GNOME is interested in vertical integration. Even if someone is, it's a technical problem to be solved with a technical solution. "Every problem in computer science can be solved by adding another layer of indirection". > Will the RedHat and Ubuntu of the > future have no more in common than Tivo and Android do today? > Setting aside the silly parts of comparison you've made, the rest is already true from the user's PoV. The two have drastically different UIs, and their packages are incompatible (rpm vs deb, yum vs apt). If some applications are indeed common between the two, it's no surprise since most of those run on Windows too. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
