Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 15:41:05 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: iijima yoshino <iijimayoshino@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD doesn't have a Gnome3 port? Message-ID: <CAGwOe2ZPwAV2oxRs3CdKNnxoNPLhOD_2uJcf_RzgiEM7kenzwg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1386253808.8359.5.camel@debian> References: <1386221592.4385.16.camel@debian> <CAKoxK%2B61HZPLR_xM7BC12dHc3y4eHPDCEvsRC8oQ_Jm1wUovnQ@mail.gmail.com> <1386253808.8359.5.camel@debian>
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El 05/12/2013 15:30, "iijima yoshino" <iijimayoshino@gmail.com> 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 <iijimayoshino@gmail.com= > 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"
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