Re: Opening the 3.12 cycle

[Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot gnome org>]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:03:41AM +0300, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Jasper St. Pierre
> <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Andy Tai <atai gnu org> wrote:
> > > what would this mean for systems not using systemd?
> >
> >
> > Systems not using systemd already fall back to ConsoleKit, which does not
> > have any maintainer. We don't support features like suspend or hibernate on
> > ConsoleKit anymore and it's pretty much on life support only at this point.
> >
> > For 3.12, we will keep the old gnome-session and gdm code that uses
> > ConsoleKit and fork/exec ourselves in the case where you compile without
> > logind support, but I wouldn't expect it to be around much longer.
> >
> > Do you have any specific examples of systems not using systemd that you
> > would like to run GNOME on?
>
> Did you heard about FreeBSD?

And OpenBSD for that matter. GNOME 3.8 works great:
https://www.bsdfrog.org/tmp/gnome.webm

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Antoine