Re: PB G4 Installation
On 5/21/20 4:56 PM, userm57@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Yaboot is unmaintained and doesn't support modern ext4 filesystems. It isn't
>> really an option therefore.
>
> Adrian, thanks for your response. I realize that yaboot isn't maintained
> and that it doesn't support ext4 filesystems; however, all of my
> filesystems are ext3. If I have a choice between a product that is
> unsupported but still works, even if only in a limited way, (such as
> yaboot, BootX, Penguin), or a supported product that I can't figure out
> how to configure (GRUB), then I'll pick the unsupported product. But
> YMMV, as they say.
The problem is that it doesn't move us forward. If you used GRUB and then
bothered to help fixing the aforementioned issues, we would be able to
improve the experience for everyone.
At some point, Yaboot might stop working completely depending on what
other changes are coming in the future to the kernel. Who knows.
Riding a dead horse in the software industry is most often not a good
idea.
>> The problem is that it isn't a "just non-systemd versions". What you are
>> asking for requires tremendous efforts from a distribution point of view.
>>
>> It's hard to justify such efforts when in the end there are just three
>> users for such a configuration.
>
> Sorry, I wasn't meaning to minimize the effort of maintaining a parallel
> set of non-systemd packages. And if there are only three users who are
> requesting such a thing, you are absolutely right, it isn't worth the
> effort.
As I said, there is the debian-init-diversity project run by Ian Jackson.
I don't know about the current status, but they are most likely looking
for contributors.
Adrian
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