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Debian Developers Take to Voting Over Init System Diversity

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.

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.]

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday December 10 2019, @10:44PM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday December 10 2019, @10:44PM (#930826) Journal

    Now is a good time to learn FreeBSD. And Gentoo. And Arch. And Void. Coincidentally I've been using all of these extensively aside from FreeBSD for a long time now, starting with Gentoo back in 2004 and (finally!) returning to it recently now I've got some serious CPU horses under the hood.

    This was the inevitable result of the devils' bargain with corporate money. Thankfully, the GPL and indeed other copyleft licenses exist to prevent this from being fatal. In the meantime, we in the know will use alternatives.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday December 10 2019, @10:45PM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday December 10 2019, @10:45PM (#930827) Journal

    s/Arch/Artix/ of course. Sorry, first post after a long day of work. Slackware too while I think of it.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @05:51AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @05:51AM (#930973)

      Don't you just hate those mental switches that invalidate your point? At least you caught that one yourself!