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FreeBSD is a No-Go for KDE's Plasma Login Manager (itsfoss.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system that has roots in Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which itself originated from research conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1970s.

The OS is known for its advanced networking features, security capabilities, and freedom-focused licensing, finding use in a wide range of hardware ranging from embedded systems to being the backbone of major cloud services.

Unfortunately, it looks like KDE's Plasma Login Manager won't be working on it, as an accepted merge request sees the focus turn to compatibility on Linux systems.

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

All these articles....

I listened to the Tech over Tea episode with the GNOME guy about their new systemd dependence. Any regular distro uses systemd, everything is free software.

Nobody is forcing anything.

KDE is building new tech, streamlined, minimal, performant. And yeah that uses systemd.

But if people want to generalize components so they can work on OpenRC or worse init systems, I highly doubt that they will block it.

Or that they will block launching startplasma-wayland from any other login manager, which currently already works. This is just their login manager, with way more features that are crucial for making it a windows competitor, like headless RDP support.

Here is the podcast episode btw