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Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference
jones_supa writes: Lennart Poettering, the creator of the controversial init system and service manager for Linux-based operating systems has announced the first systemd conference. The systemd.conf will take place November 5-7, in Berlin, Germany. systemd developers and hackers, DevOps professionals, and Linux distribution packagers will be able to attend various workshops, as well as to collaborate with their fellow developers and plan the future of the project. Attendees will also be able to participate in an extended hackfest event, as well as numerous presentations held by important names in the systemd project, including Poettering himself.
If a startup management subsystem needs its own conference, it is doing too much.
Ah, but with every single major distro adopting it, you better quit crying and get used to it, buddy!
They changed to systemd, they can change away just as well. Oh sure, the systemd cancer has spread to many daemons, but it can be excised from them as well. (Ironically, the daemons need exorcism...)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Actually, Debian should have been forked to include systemd, not forked to exclude it!
That's the whole point of forking. You fork, do experimental stuff like integrate systemd in this fork, and then throw the fork away when it becomes clear that the idea was a dumb one.
When done sensibly like that, the source is left unaffected by experimentation that proves to be disastrous.
Debian users could have continued to use a stable, sane, reliable, trustworthy system, like they've been accustomed to for a couple of decades now.
Those who want newfangled and unproven doodads and curiosities could have used the systemd fork of Debian. When they got bored, or suffered from one failure after another, they could always limp back to Debian.