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Rumblings of a Debian Fork Amidst Anger Over systemd

posted by n1 on Sunday September 28 2014, @06:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the yet-another-systemd-story dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Controversy is nothing new when it comes to systemd. Many people find this new Linux init system to be inherently flawed in most ways, yet it is still gaining traction with major distros like Arch Linux, openSUSE, Fedora, and soon both Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux. The adoption of systemd for Debian 8 "Jessie" has been particularly fraught with strife and animosity.

Some have described the systemd adoption process as having been a "coup", while others are vowing to stick with Debian 7 as long as possible before moving to another distro. Others are so upset by what they see as a complete betrayal of the Debian and open source communities that there is serious discussion about forking Debian. Regardless of one's stance toward systemd, it cannot be argued that it has become one of the most divisive and disruptive changes in the long history of the Debian project, threatening to destroy both the project and the community that has built up around it.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by linuxrocks123 on Monday October 06 2014, @03:42AM

    by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Monday October 06 2014, @03:42AM (#102289) Journal

    Slackware got rid of GNOME several releases ago; Slackware uses a very transparent BSD-style init system; Slackware's philosophy is that "it's your system" and you should be able to configure it however you want, and the distro should help facilitate your choices as much as is reasonable. Slackware is the oldest still-living Linux distro. Slackware's current users would probably immediately fork the distro if it adopted systemd as anything other than an optional add-on.

    Don't want systemd? Slackware's waiting for you.