Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:56:24 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: Jens Jahnke <jan0sch@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: future of the desktop Message-ID: <AANLkTi=DKwX5LAbT3PHoqpGd-uxHVYWC1CUz2vOaz%2BG9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110127152453.8377cc77.jan0sch@gmx.net> References: <201101270609.59227.lumiwa@gmail.com> <20110127132423.cdb66a2a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110127152453.8377cc77.jan0sch@gmx.net>
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Jens Jahnke <jan0sch@gmx.net> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:24:23 +0100 > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > P> Keep in mind that all the "magic" the U* are doing on Linux > P> have been done by FreeBSD's devd for many years now. Maybe > P> this is the chance to revert to a WORKING and STABLE infra- > P> structure on FreeBSD. Just remember: FreeBSD had "hotplug > P> capabilities" and "automounter" for many years, even BEFORE > P> HAL and DBUS came to desktop land. > > Amen. :-) Yes, but DBus is a generic IPC system. It is just slightly related to automounting and hotpluging. I mean, DBus is an easy way for communicating processes that provides, among other things, activation of well-known services. That's it's goal. On the other side, I think HAL is not necessary at all since devd is enough to do that. Cheers > > -- > 27. Hartung 2011, 15:24 > Homepage : http://www.jan0sch.de > > The gentlemen looked one another over with microscopic carelessness. >
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