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Could it be the Community Might Actually Want systemd?

posted by janrinok on Thursday November 20 2014, @09:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the or-at-least-not-be-bothered-either-way dept.

[Ed's Comment: Not wishing to ignite yet another flame war regarding the adoption of systemd, I hesitated before publishing this story. However, although it is not an formal survey, it might still reflect the views of the greater linux user community rather than those who frequent this particular site. There is no need to restate the arguments seen over the last few weeks - they are well known and understood - but the survey might have a point.]

Konomi writes:

http://q5sys.sh has recenlty conducted a survey finding many Linux users may be in favour of systemd:

First off lets keep one thing in mind, this was not a professional survey. As such the results need to be taken as nothing more than the opinions of the 4755 individuals who responded. While the survey responses show that 47% of the respondents are in favor of systemd, that does not mean that 47% of the overall linux community is in favor of systemd. The actual value may be higher or lower. This is simply a small capture of our overall community.

Although the author questions the results could this be an indication that we're really seeing a vocal minority who don't want systemd while the silent majority either do or simply don't care? Poll results and the original blog post.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 20 2014, @11:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 20 2014, @11:15PM (#118308)

    Debian shouldn't be forked to remove systemd. Debian should have been forked for those who want it to include systemd.

    A two-decade-old community of millions of users shouldn't be held hostage, and then have their computers trashed, by the small handful of idiots who are too dumb and inexperienced to realize how fucking awful systemd really is.

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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday November 21 2014, @09:50PM

    by isostatic (365) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 21 2014, @09:50PM (#118606) Journal

    But the developers disagree with us. Fortunately the minority of developers can fork and call it "traditional Debian" or something.

    Reality is most developers for some inexplicable reason want systemd.

    Just like we got fed up with beta and forked and supported SN.