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Ed Maste@emaste@mastodon.social

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Joined: 2026-01-21 22:54:47
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Ed Maste@emaste@mastodon.social (2026-01-23 00:27:12)
@neal @kde The FreeBSD Foundation''s laptop support project started with a focus on drivers and low-level things. We've made good progress there and are now starting to look at a roadmap for effort further up the stack.

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Ed Maste@emaste@mastodon.social (2026-01-23 00:23:26)
@neal @kde No surprise, the main problem is not a technical one :)

I'm discussing the login/session management topic with some FreeBSD folks, and there are lots of different paths to investigate (which could include adding new FreeBSD kernel or library functionality, adding FreeBSD support to existing daemons, etc.).

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Ed Maste@emaste@mastodon.social (2026-01-22 04:07:02)
I see this prompted a bunch of spicy takes, so to be clear -- in the near term, 🤷. SDDM will continue to work as it does now.

Why the 😞? It's about uncertainty. Is a significant amount of SDDM development and maintenance effort coming from KDE folks, who will now be working on PLM instead? Are Linux distributions migrating from SDDM to PLM?

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/2148

Ed Maste@emaste@mastodon.social (2026-01-21 03:59:59)
https://github.com/KDE/plasma-login-manager/commit/e78f33aefd6512b542af21c3542516f38cbf678d 😞