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[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.]
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.
(Score: 2) by quitte on Friday November 21 2014, @12:02AM
I do care about the future of linux. A lot. I've been using it as my primary OS for almost 20 years now
Unfortunately there is an increasing number of things I just don't like about it. And I'd prefer if there was less resistance to change, On the desktop it's all fucked up. On all Operating Systems. For example I'm fairly certain that it's more than just nostalgia that makes me think that in the CRT days we had less problems with tearing and smoothness.
XGL looked like a nice way towards a modern X11. But instead we got AiGLX. DirectFB was so very impressive and on Matrox cards we had excellent and smooth video output more than a decade ago. Now everything is a mess of extensions and no video is ever smooth.
And init? In my mind there is no question that we need something that is faster and more intelligent than linearly calling a number of scripts. Then sysvinit scripts became worse when Distributions tried to get the boot speed down and add concurrency. So as it is now sysvinit is nowhere near as elegant and simple as it seems. It is a mess. It has to go.
So while I don't know wether systemd is the answer I'm glad that sysvinit is phasing out.
Hopefully there will be less resistance towards wayland. X has to go even more than init does.
(Score: 1) by Synonymous Homonym on Friday November 21 2014, @09:34AM
What does Wayland do that DirectFB/DirectFBGL doesn't?
(Score: 2) by quitte on Friday November 21 2014, @10:48AM
Wayland has a chance for widespread adoption.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 21 2014, @01:08PM
... once it's integrated into systemd, and forced onto your desktop.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 21 2014, @08:34PM
... once it's integrated into systemd, and forced onto your desktop.
...from behind!!!
(Score: 1) by Synonymous Homonym on Friday November 21 2014, @05:47PM
But what does Wayland do that DirectFB/DirectFBGL doesn't?