They've expressly said that they won't accept any patches that will make it portable -- "We do not consider it feasible to port systemd to other Unixes (let alo

They've expressly said that they won't accept any patches that will make it portable -- "We do not consider it feasible to port systemd to other Unixes (let alone non-Unix operating systems) and will not accept patches for systemd implementing any such portability" [1]. A lot of the issues come down to how Linux does namespacing, and how there's a lot of code that's hard-wired to require it. So any port would be a fork by near definition. [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePortabilityAndStabilityChart/ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePo...