Porting GNOME to NetBSD by Dan Cirnat
Channel: EuroBSDcon
Date: 2021-09-27

For years, GNOME3, arguably the most popular open source desktop environment, was not available on NetBSD. This presentation will describe how recent versions of GNOME arrived in NetBSD/pkgsrc, what functionality is supported and which are the pain points and blockers. The talk will also explain why Wayland is not yet supported for GNOME on NetBSD, what are the proposed replacement for logind interfaces and the state of portable thread-safe locales on POSIX-like systems.

Dan Cirnat                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Dan Cirnat is a developer with a background in web backends and a passion for operating systems. Dan has experience for Berlin-based startups AUTO1 and FlixBus. Since going independent in 2020, he has used his free time to port GNOME for NetBSD and has joined the NetBSD foundation as a pkgsrc developer.