Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork

Posted by timothy on Monday October 20, 2014 @07:43AM from the tine-to-weigh-priorities dept.

New submitter Tsolias writes It appears that systemd is still a hot topic in the Debian community. As seen earlier today, there is a new movement shaping up against the adoption of systemd for the upcoming stable release [of Debian], Jessie. They claim that "systemd betrays the UNIX philosophy"; it makes things more complex, thus breaking the "do one thing and do it well" principle. Note that the linked Debian Fork page specifically says that the anonymous developers behind it support a proposal to preserve options in init systems, rather than demanding the removal of systemd, and are not opposed to change per se. They just don't want other parts of the system to be wholly dependent on systemd. "We contemplate adopting more recent alternatives to sysvinit, but not those undermining the basic design principles of "do one thing and do it well" with a complex collection of dozens of tightly coupled binaries and opaque logs."

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Re:And this is why Linux will never win the deskto by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-20 07:57 · Score: 1, Redundant

And that is still the point. Linux, BSD etc are all good for a purpose.
Linus is NOT good for the desktop or average user. Most people just want something that works out of the box, even if there are a lot of tradeoffs.