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Integration with systemd Making Gnome3 the Default Debian Desktop

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday September 24 2014, @06:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the better-together dept.

jbernardo writes:

Debian Jesse is going to have Gnome3 as the default desktop.

The desktop re-qualification page, used to help choose which desktop will be default, has in the Jesse version a weight for systemd integration, and of course only Gnome3 does it (at least for now). This will surely make the systemd/gnome3 fanbase happy, but possibly will make others unhappy, as it [may] be seen as another step towards mono-culture, until we soon end up with all distros being redhat clones.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @07:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @07:31AM (#97525)

    dude, just select xfce from the install menu. its not rocket science

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @09:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @09:39AM (#97554)

    Reading comprehension fail, my young rocket scientist: The grandparent isn't primarily concerned with the desktop environment but with systemd...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @12:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @12:05PM (#97608)

      I fear that Debian is going the way of Firefox. It has been one stupid decision after another from them. If they do go forward with this systemd and GNOME 3 stupidity, then they will drive away their most important users.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @02:09PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @02:09PM (#97662)

        which users are their most important users?

        the ones that bitch and complain the loudest, or the ones that know how to use apt?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @01:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @01:33PM (#97643)

      sudo apt-get remove systemd

      it aint rocket science

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Blackmoore on Wednesday September 24 2014, @03:30PM

        by Blackmoore (57) on Wednesday September 24 2014, @03:30PM (#97712) Journal

        Well why dont you try that and get back to the class with what happened.

        • (Score: 4, Informative) by joshuajon on Wednesday September 24 2014, @05:19PM

          by joshuajon (807) on Wednesday September 24 2014, @05:19PM (#97784)

          I just did out of curiosity, doesn't work. And a bunch of stuff ended up missing from /sbin/ in the process including reboot, shutdown. When I reset the VM it now fails to boot with "Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init"

          • (Score: 4, Informative) by joshuajon on Wednesday September 24 2014, @05:45PM

            by joshuajon (807) on Wednesday September 24 2014, @05:45PM (#97791)

            apt-get install systemd
            apt-get install systemd-sysv
            reboot

            now running systemd

            apt-get remove systemd-sysv
            apt-get install sysvinit
            reboot

            now running sysvinit

            apt-get remove systemd now works.

            • (Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Wednesday September 24 2014, @06:06PM

              by Blackmoore (57) on Wednesday September 24 2014, @06:06PM (#97802) Journal

              that's a magnitude less than optimal.

              well, I guess I stick with Mint for now. but keep an eye open for a new option that skips systemd.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @10:17PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @10:17PM (#97943)

              i guess if you remove an init system its kinda implicit that you install another

              hopefully in the final release they'll make the install of sysvinit automatic when removing systemd (same as the old gdm3 to gdm and many others)