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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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Chess tonight.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday September 24 2014, @04:10PM
You could but at this point it is moot. Systemd is here to stay. All the bitching and empty threats to jump ship to *BSD or Slackware is simply not doing anything. Shell script kludge is Unix cruft that needs to be avoided in certain places. Systemd fixes that using IPC albeit it includes functionality that is of scope for an init system (e.g. an NTP client).
My current thoughts on systemd are this: it's intended goal of being a more modern pid1, init and process manager is needed. But I don't like the kitchen sink approach so I am a bit weary. Systemd is not the end-all be-all of init systems. And I believe that down the road things will change and any extraneous nonsense will be removed or changed. Plus we already have uselessd (use-less)which aims to trim the fat from systemd and remove the dependency on glibc. So if systemd sucks hard enough, we can simply drop in an alternative without breaking downstream package dependency. That is the beauty of open source.