I worked on Solaris during the Gnome transition and during the largely overlapping SMF transition. I'm not sure which was more painful or was more broken by design, though SMF surely affected more developers.
If I were making decisions for OpenBSD I would not accept a requirement to port an init replacement, but I also wouldn't be putting any resources into keeping Gnome running that could go into better integration with an alternative.
While it is nice to be able to mix and match everything rather than having choose a silo, having these large market share players like gnome dictate changes on every platform is ultimately rather destructive to having meaningful options.
I would rather run the Linux kernel for practical reasons, and often use gnome for practical reasons though I would be thrilled not to.
Showing me you can keep up with Linux running gnome isn't compelling at all, particularly if it means you are no longer doing much else. But if you can better integrate with KDE or enlightenment (or fvwm and some duct tape,) and give me an alternative to linux+gnome then I'll deal with a new kernel (and not having PAM?!)
I worked on Solaris during the Gnome transition and during the largely overlapping SMF transition. I'm not sure which was more painful or was more broken by design, though SMF surely affected more developers.
If I were making decisions for OpenBSD I would not accept a requirement to port an init replacement, but I also wouldn't be putting any resources into keeping Gnome running that could go into better integration with an alternative.
While it is nice to be able to mix and match everything rather than having choose a silo, having these large market share players like gnome dictate changes on every platform is ultimately rather destructive to having meaningful options.
I would rather run the Linux kernel for practical reasons, and often use gnome for practical reasons though I would be thrilled not to.
Showing me you can keep up with Linux running gnome isn't compelling at all, particularly if it means you are no longer doing much else. But if you can better integrate with KDE or enlightenment (or fvwm and some duct tape,) and give me an alternative to linux+gnome then I'll deal with a new kernel (and not having PAM?!)