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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: 2) by emg on Monday September 29 2014, @03:53AM

    by emg (3464) on Monday September 29 2014, @03:53AM (#99452)

    Yep. Our new servers take six minutes to get through POST. Linux boot time is irrelevant in comparison.

    Fortunately they only get rebooted about once a year.

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  • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday September 29 2014, @06:37PM

    by cafebabe (894) on Monday September 29 2014, @06:37PM (#99714) Journal

    It occurs to me that 99.999% uptime allows 315 seconds of downtime per year. Therefore, high availability can definitely not be attained with a single server, a large amount of memory and an annual reboot.

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