<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Diversity is a very good thing in Open Source software. Unfortunately, we are seeing</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">more and more projects like GNOME, KDE and other 3rd party systems adopting</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">non portable deps such as systemd, pulseaudio, etc. It's very likely that future releases of GNOME and Xorg</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">will be Linux-only. I'm not happy at all at the current trend. Even among Linux projects like</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Debian, a lot of
people are reticent to adopt systemd.</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Here's the perspective of an OpenBSD developer who worked for hours on those problems:</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/57589-upstream-vendors-can-harm-small-projects-openbsd-dev/57589-upstream-vendors-can-harm-small-projects-openbsd-dev?limitstart=0</font><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New
Roman'; font-style: normal;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Xorg meanwhile has Linux-only bits that make it hard for other open source kernels to port it. KMS</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">required a lot of rewrite to get ported to FreeBSD. Xorg is developed almost entirely by Linux developers</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times,
serif">for Linux distros.</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">I wish to remind Linux users that OpenSSH originated from OpenBSD, and we</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">make sure that it runs on non-OpenBSD systems. We've always been attentive to problem</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">reports coming from small open source OSes. Case in point, when I wrote
PermitOpen None extension for </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">openssh, <span style="background-color: transparent;">i asked the debian devs to test it on their distros to make sure that it works.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">Beyond that, OpenBSD has contributed to many upstream projects such as Xorg, (GNU) Emacs, Firefox, and</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">the list
goes on.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">//Logan</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">C-x-C-c</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>