David Nielsen in a well-referenced post: http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/systemd-in-gnome-packagekit-and-what-gnome-as-an-os-really-means/ http://d

David Nielsen in a well-referenced post: http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/systemd-in-gnome-packagekit-and-what-gnome-as-an-os-really-means/ http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/systemd-in-gnom... >Lennart in follow ups to his proposal explains that systemd could be separated into a core set of interfaces which could take replacement backends that support e.g. FreeBSD so long as it implements the interfaces systemd cares about or as it was their init system. So the idea is not to abandon non-Linux targets, but to offer varying levels of support for them.