Hi

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Doug wrote:
For those thinking of going to a BSD: You have probably read that there is
some sort of patch that lets you run Linux programs on BSD. Well think again,
then. If the Linux programs are no-longer stand-alone, as they have always been,
but now require sytemd to function, then they are _not_ going to work on
your favorite BSD!

Not really.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc4MjQ

It is likely the BSD's will implement some of the same interfaces as systemd and programs which depend on the interfaces will continue to work just fine.  This is one of the purposes of depending on the interfaces (provided via D-Bus) as opposed to the implementations directly.

Rahul