Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Brian wrote:
> On Tue 26 Aug 2014 at 19:08:32 -0400, Doug wrote:
>
> > On 08/26/2014 05:36 PM, David Guntner wrote:
> >
> > /snip/
> > > The whole systemd debate on *debian-user list* is ridiculous
> > > anyway, IMO.  Some people really like it, and some people really
> > > hate it, and it rages on and on and on - and ultimately won't make
> > > ONE bit of difference.  This is a USER list - the bulk of the
> > > Debian developers (you know, the people who actually put the
> > > packages together and decide what going to be or not going to be
> > > part of the official distribution) aren't even ON this list, so
> > > they don't see the arguments being made one way or another, which
> > > means they won't have any impact on whether or not Debian goes
> > > that way.
> > /smip/
> > >                      --Dave
> > I guess it never occurred to me that the devs at Debian, and I
> > suppose it's true of the other distros also, never see the users'
> > comments.
> Never occured to you? I am well aware that the "devs" are not hanging on
> my every word.
>
> > Maybe that's why they are incorporating software that (I would guess
> > from the emails) a rather large percentage of _users_  do  _not_
> > want.
> Bad guess; most people don't care. They just want a system that boots.

That really depends.  Some of us also want a system that's:
- easy to maintain
- easy to administer
- easy to develop for
- easy to customize
- easy to troubleshoot
- and so forth....

The more so for those of us who use Debian as a server platform.

Miles Fidelman (who uses Debian in a production environment and REALLY 
hates it when major changes cause downtime, impact configurations of 
servers, and otherwise cause great inconvenience)

--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra