Re: Irony

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 4:47 PM, AW <debian.list.tracker@1024bits.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:26:40 -0400
> Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>>
>> Some of the reasons I switched my desktop from Ubuntu to Debian were:
>>
>> 1) To do more config by editor and less by magical binary program.
>>
>> 2) To get rid of gratuitous boot gunge (in this case Plymouth)
>>
>> 3) To get closer to the Unix Philosophy
>>
>> Within months of my switch, oops, here comes systemd.
>
> A new thread... I chase this one, knowing full well that convincing anyone of
> anything is nearly impossible.
>
> There remains only a few holdouts from the "major" distributions: Gentoo and
> Slackware. So, give 'em a go...

Gentoo can be installed with either openrc or systemd.

Gentoo "stable" tracks upstream systemd more closely than Debian
"unstable" does.

If you want to use Gnome, the only supported init is systemd. There's
a "force-openrc" (I'm not sure of the wording but it's close to this)
USE variable for Gnome users who insist on using openrc but it's
unsupported.