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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 21 2014, @08:08AM
No.
If they did, the systemd proponents wouldn't need to be so vocally against letting systemd stand on its own merits.
When Arch switched, one of the arguments was that nobody was willing to maintain sysvinit-scripts. They spent the next couple of days banning people for volunteering to take over that job.
A few days ago, Debian had a vote on whether to add a requirement not to use dependencies to actively prevent people from running sysvinit. It was voted down. Nobody on the pro systemd site wants you to have a choice, even when the default is systemd (and I do expect most people to stick with the default).
Heck, if systemd was allowed to stand on its own merits, we wouldn't be having this discussion. The whole for/against systemd comes from a lot of us being pissed about attempts to force systemd down our throats, and being forced to switch distros to avoid it. Multiple times in some cases (Arch and Debian).
(Score: 2) by E_NOENT on Friday November 21 2014, @10:12AM
Heck, if systemd was allowed to stand on its own merits, we wouldn't be having this discussion. The whole for/against systemd comes from a lot of us being pissed about attempts to force systemd down our throats, and being forced to switch distros to avoid it. Multiple times in some cases (Arch and Debian).
Hear, hear. I'd like to add that for some of us, switching distros isn't exactly trivial. It's even worse if you've got clients or customers using one of the affected distributions running your commercial software. What happens to people using the init scripts (and everything else !systemd) you wrote last year on a product you shipped? Better hope everything works!
It's a big transition for some. Maybe Red Hat can help by selling you some consulting hours, you know, to help ease the transition.
I'm not in the business... I *am* the business.
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Friday November 21 2014, @05:36PM
Preach it Anon! That is about 95% the reason I'm against it.... If they have to try so hard to have it take over the Linux world, then there must be some nefarious motives behind it. I don't like that... AT ALL..
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