On Monday 14 March 2011 00:52:26 echo "name" >> /dev/null echo "surname" >> /dev/null wrote: > Dear KDE team: > I've seen that has not yet released the update to KDE 4.6 and I think SC > and SC van for KDE 4.6.1, I've seen that has not been updated to version > of Xfce version 4.8 and apparently it is because teams have recently > migrated to udev / hal. I wonder if this is called freedom, namely desktop > environments like KDE, Gnome or Xfce are supposed to be free and freely > distributed. So why is it that the core team of these free projects just > worry about linux? and not other operating systems that do not use the > implementation of udev / hal? How is it possible that FreeBSD Forum > [See here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21043&page=2] > has been an attempt to implement or something like udev in the FreeBSD > kernel to use these environments? What are we? Why such a monopoly with > linux? If KDE is really multiplatform How can this be allowed? I would like > to know what you think, and what you are doing to use KDE 4.6 on FreeBSD, > not just me but a crowd. > > Cheers and have a nice evening, thank you for your attention.
kde 4.6 was not yet released to ports because: http://blogs.freebsdish.org/avilla/2011/03/01/kde-sc-4-6-on-freebsd- roadmap developers make stuff for linux only because they're mainly linux users. luckily, kde is pretty good at supporting freebsd (e.g., even if they've moved to udev, they still support hal), and we (kde@ team) try to fill the holes they leave open (and we're also working on getting devd support in), which is made easier by the abstraction layers they have created xfce seems to be in a worse position, as udev is probably directly used across the whole codebase, then porting it to devd requires a noticeable amount of work... -- Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avi...@freebsd.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
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