> This is stockholm syndromish - because Debian is held behind times by > lack of decision making, we start finding good things in being behind. Do you realize that fedora is the beta version for red hat? They use the community to get free testing for their commercial product. Personally as a debian user I prefer having a system that works rather than being used as a guinea pig for a commercial product. I don't see how forcing users to use immature software that doesn't yet work very well is a good thing for anyone (except if you are a commercial company and use your free product to get free beta testing). I have tried systemd, and I like the approach it has, and in a few years I believe it has potential. But... using it to restart my computer i need to do an hard reset (and think of how happy would I be if my computer had been a server in a rack on the other side of the planet), and gave me several problems related to switching from X11 to vt and vice versa. At this point I can't see what decision is there to be made, systemd is not ready yet to replace sysvinit, if and when it will work reliably we can have this conversation. On a side note about Poettering, sometimes pulseaudio gets pulled in by some package that I install, and when this happens I stop hearing sounds from my computer, then I know I just need to remove it and everything will be fine again (this happened 2 months ago the last time), I am sure there is a fix for this but personally I find it much easier to just remove some piece of software that I didn't even need in the 1st place and is just causing malfunctioning after years of causing malfunctioning. So I really don't regard him as the best person there is to write core parts of my system. I'd trust him maybe with things like cowsay or nyancat that wouldn't cause too much havoc when they should fail. -- Salvo Tomaselli http://web.student.chalmers.se/~saltom/
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