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"Boycott Systemd" movement takes shape

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Contradiction (Score: 2, Interesting)

by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-09-08 14:24 (#2S5K)

Interesting how more and more distros are adopting it but there is so much negativity and complaining wherever I look. Seems contradictory...

Interesting read of the reasoning for the adoption by debian:
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd

Re: Contradiction (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-08 19:06 (#2S5S)

I modded you up because that's a great link - very informative. I notice though that the argument consists of, for the moment, people talking past each other. That is, I don't see much in Debian's position statement that refutes what the anti-systemd crowd is putting forth as their argument.

Can't wait to see how this plays out. I confess I am for the most part more swayed by the anti-systemd crowd's position, but I like transparency and simplicity in a system, and systemd decreases both.

Re: Contradiction (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-09 01:05 (#2S66)

You're right, I expected (much) more from Debian. It reads more or less as "we like it, it's popular, so nyeah".

Re: Contradiction (Score: 1)

by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-09-09 05:07 (#2S6B)

Same thinking here. But it may be that they are "forced" into accepting it. For example GNOME 3.8 depends on systemd.
It will be interesting to see if/how long Slackware/Gentoo/etc hold on from the adoption...

Re: Contradiction (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-09 07:20 (#2S6E)

As a faithful fan and user for almost as long as it has existed, all I can say is "you know what? fuck GNOME." There are plenty of other great desktops out there and I'm sick of this shit. This has been a number of years in the coming, but they've done it to themselves.

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