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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: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 24 2014, @06:26PM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday September 24 2014, @06:26PM (#97815) Journal
    And it's not the outcome of the discussion, pro/vs. systemd, that is worrying. It is worrying that systemd cannot be treated like any other package: from the kernel to the config customization, you can apt-get install and remove stuff. What I mean is: debian, "the universal operating system", should not choose one init system, it should package the existing ones. If one cannot be packaged without wrecking an installation, it should not be included. I am sure that devs working in good faith would resolve such situations. Debian can default to gnome, I don't care, if it keeps the usual packaging standards it can come with ratpoison as default. After all debian is that distro where source packages get split for convenience and customization, and the system seems to hold well. Other distros have their strength in removing potentially confusing choices, but debian, gentoo, and other should not, and debian, which features non-linux kernels too, even more so.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 25 2014, @08:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 25 2014, @08:36AM (#98134)

    False flag operation for either compromising patches of the userspace, or kernelspace.

    Maybe somebody with the knowledge, tools, or manpower could look into that for us?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 25 2014, @09:14AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 25 2014, @09:14AM (#98143)

      Probably. But they have already won. You can only fight governments through force. The people compromising debian are not going to give up their positions if their masters are the agencies and a government.