On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 11:36 -0500, william moss wrote:
> On 02/20/2015 09:30 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > * On 2015 20 Feb 05:55 -0600, Aldemir Akpinar wrote:

> > As a home user of Debian running Xfce and also with a strong hobbyist
> > interest and advocate for Linux systems, I do not wish to be excluded by
> > Devuan and, at least for 1.0, that does not appear to be in the plan.
> >
> > - Nate
> >
> FreeBSD supports XFCE Via its package manager (pkg) or /usr/ports, so it
> must be possible to run XFCE w/o the systemd daemon(s) or shared objects.
>
> Also, I configured server farms for decades (retired now) and a simple
> GUI was convenient. People, even highly technical one, are pictorially
> oriented; as a species we relate to images. In that context we ran the
> CDE (common desktop environment) and its derivatives at Bell Labs (AT&T)
> using Sun SPARC and HP RISC servers.

Hurd does also run xfce4 without problems, and don't have anything
*systemd* installed :)