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Phoronix reports the systemd developers are having their first conference. Here is a direct link to the YouTube video channel.
Whether you love systemd or hate it, it looks like it's not going away. If you dislike it maybe one of these videos might change your mind.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 5, Interesting) by FatPhil on Tuesday November 10 2015, @11:48AM
I will also give a hat-tip here to Gentoo, a distribution which I've tarred perhaps unfairly over the last decade (but that is because they do attract too many inane ricers), but as I was looking for a systemd-less distro earlier this year, the IRC channels were *awesome*. I went in there humbly, knowing very little about how to get things done in Gentoo, and pretty much every question got a quick, accurate, useful, and non-condescending answer. At the moment, I'd say it's the best community I've seen. I may well keep one of my machines on Gentoo, just so I don't lose what I've learnt. (My experiences with Slackware were quite the opposite, unfortunately.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Tuesday November 10 2015, @01:29PM
As somebody who has never had much distro loyalty (as in, used SuSE, CentOS, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch, Linux From Scratch, Slackware, and a few others), I have to say that Gentoo is extremely handy for personal use. I wouldn't run it on a server, because updates are too complicated for that, but for a desktop it's really easy to just start up an update run just before you go to bed, wait 5 minutes to make sure it's starting OK, and then come back in the morning and it's done. They also have one of the more elegant solutions to the problem of updating config files - far too many distros just clobber any customizations you've made.
And, as you note, they did a bunch of work to avoid systemd when to do that made them a lonely voice in the crowd.
So yeah, it's worth giving a try.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.