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Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. And this is why Linux will never win the desktop by NotDrWho · · Score: 0, Troll

    Choose your OS, average user:

    1) Windows
    2) Apple
    3) From hundreds of confusing distros and rage-forks of distros of "Linux"

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  2. Re:That's all we need ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    However, it is undesired by a vocal minority of users and sysadmins

    FTFY.

  3. Re:And this is why Linux will never win the deskto by Dunbal · · Score: -1, Troll
    "Linux works out of the box in the same way that MacOS or Windows does."

    Bullshit. I tried installing the latest Ubuntu on my machine the other day and it doesn't seem to like my motherboard. At least I think it's my motherboard. Or my BIOS. Or something. Anyway you are clearly lying. Oh and if you do manage to get it installed, you are left to search for drivers and utilities and to edit conf files for even the most basic functions like say multi-monitor support whereas with windows this is maybe 3 mouse clicks away.

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    Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
  4. Re:And this is why Linux will never win the deskto by aztracker1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can build a piece of software that will run in every version of windows sold for the last 15 years, distribute it on a disk without any source, or special compilations... you can *not* do that with even two versions of the same linux distro a year apart from eachother.

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    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1.info