From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 5 14:41:07 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 747B1CD1 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 14:41:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x230.google.com (mail-wg0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 084701109 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 14:41:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f48.google.com with SMTP id z12so16616383wgg.15 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 06:41:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=minrZFUwtHX74QK+ewlvHL/L7NSv6z5QhTAqNNpiiEA=; b=R7+wZ61yD4OvHwVNEvP4jwUWx16pWesmuwn3nBOxAXCpP7i87pNTlvtuATMd3//eQp jBmUKod8QV90OZzQPIieMH7AJoZgFr4vmJFXdmwm4utQAIUv1Ru7RV2N/0fflWQhxUDY RxbJd3DAIqam6+eBSFeFCge2UN5IuA3xpUmkYl6C7fX/isj/iEwPqTbV1KSTjgxzhyTb PZJLmFQbaRBZRyNWKfpny31pdXNlrFimtwdZvyKeF1/N77ATRVgfPQ55Tii/UzRrJEJa G/5FUfkrzKbXRJ6TWFTgPxXvYvP+9hqKjwqI7VVRMKG9QypWwrMIwQfNBzGOy/csPrbA YtAw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.9.74 with SMTP id x10mr12309068wia.56.1386254465398; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 06:41:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.126.100 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 06:41:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.126.100 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 06:41:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1386253808.8359.5.camel@debian> References: <1386221592.4385.16.camel@debian> <1386253808.8359.5.camel@debian> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 15:41:05 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD doesn't have a Gnome3 port? From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= To: iijima yoshino Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: User Questions , Luca Ferrari X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:41:07 -0000 El 05/12/2013 15:30, "iijima yoshino" escribi=C3= =B3: > > =E5=9C=A8 2013-12-05=E5=9B=9B=E7=9A=84 15:13 +0100=EF=BC=8CLuca Ferrari= =E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 6:33 AM, iijima yoshino wrote: > > > Firstly, I know gnome3 needs systemd and systemd needs Linux. So ... > > > whatever. > > > I thought it's impossible to make gnome3 run on BSD systems, but the > > > OpenBSD shocked me! Wow, Gnome 3.8! You know, they're kind of freaks. > > > And now the PCBSD announced a next image which includes Gnome3/Cinnamon > > > desktops. Therefore it's not impossible. > > > So why FreeBSD doesn't have a Gonme3 port? > > > > > > > There is at least one port, but I'm not sure it is actively > > maintained: http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/gnome3/ > > Besides, I believe that having or not having Gnome3 on *BSD is more a > > political issue (being Gnome tied to Linux) and to have developers to > > test and maintain the port. > > > > Luca > > 2 years ago, what a shame. > Even the OpenBSD team accepts the Gnome3 ... > It seems the FreeBSD towards to a server-oriented way. Not really. But porting something that shows no interest in supporting anything but Linux is both difficult and tiring. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"