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Debian Developers Take To Voting Over Init System Diversity
It's been five years already since the vote to transition to systemd in Debian over Upstart while now there is the new vote that has just commenced for judging the interest in "init system diversity" and just how much Debian developers care (or not) in supporting alternatives to systemd.
Due to Debian developers having differing opinions on handling non-systemd bugs in 2019 and the interest/commitment to supporting systemd alternatives in the scope of Debian packaging and various related friction points, they've taken to a new general resolution over weighing init system diversity.
The ballot is available on-line. The choices are:
Choice 1: F: Focus on systemd
Choice 2: B: Systemd but we support exploring alternatives
Choice 3: A: Support for multiple init systems is Important
Choice 4: D: Support non-systemd systems, without blocking progress
Choice 5: H: Support portability, without blocking progress
Choice 6: E: Support for multiple init systems is Required
Choice 7: G: Support portability and multiple implementations
Choice 8: Further Discussion
[Ed. note: I'm not sure what the letters after the choice numbers indicate, nor do I know where "C" disappeared to.]
(Score: 4, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday December 10 2019, @08:26PM
There's also some impenetrable and apparently pointless DNS server on 127.0.0.53, seemingly solely existing because DNS resolution on linux used to work and make sense and be predictable, so that must be changed so as to boost billable admin hours per server.
Also there were too many eyes on security bugs in the existing NTP clients (and servers) so as to increase the attack surface even more, they implemented their own "timesyncd". Its main claim to fame is on a raspberry pi it'll log the current time every time it syncs, so as to avoid lack of RTC on pi by whacking the SD card until the flash fails sooner than with a "legacy ntp"
Its a linux distro tradition to make it ever weirder to set the hostname, so thats getting eaten by systemd as yet another weird way to set the hostname.
Its basically a NIH machine that eats stuff that works and emits a sophomoric similar parody of "legacy" services.