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OpenBSD is developing a set of systemd compatible dbus interfaces and these will be shared amongst the BSDs
with John Hubbard's pushing they're likely to develop their own service manager equivalent to launchd or systemd (if they don't just adopt launchd)
Xorg has finally been ported off of hald and onto devd and the desktops are in progress of being ported
The various BSDs are all developing a kms linux-shim which means that instead of porting KMS drivers wholesale they just have to keep up with the KMS API, which means that in the near future (okay maybe a year or so) the graphics stack won't be a problem
So there's going to be some lag but there's no reason that the Wayland DEs should be a problem.
I would argue that instead of pulling away, that the BSDs are going to have something of a renaissance in a few years. Not only are they going through huge infrastructural changes of their own, but PC-BSD is causing an amount of emphasis to be put on the desktop, and they've finally grown to the point where having their own specific desktop is a possibility. It would be absolutely foolish to count them out just yet.
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