Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 15:21:13 +0200
> Slavko <linux@slavino.sk> wrote:
>
> > Ahoj,
> >
> > Dňa Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:56:08 +0200 Martin Steigerwald
> > <Martin@lichtvoll.de> napísal:
> >
> > > But my challenge to all of you who don´t want systemd as default in
> > > Debian still is this:
> > >
> > > *Stop* complaining and *start* acting.
> > You are right. For now it seems, that there is no chance to get DE
> > without systemd in debian and no change is expected (at least) in near
> > future. Then i test two scenarios now:
> >
> > 1. switch to another distro - for now i am testing funtoo, if is here
> >     possible to have all my apps chain without systemd and it seems,
> >     that it is possible (BTW it is my first attempt with sourced
> > distro) 2. stay on debian and maintain own versions of the packages,
> > which (useless for me) depends on the systemd – i tried it with dbus
> > and it is possible, but i afraid, if my system's knowledge will be
> >     enough with all needed packages.
> >
> > I afraid too, that the 2. will not be a temporary task and number
> > affected packages will be grow, then i don't think, that it is real
> > solution for me.
> >
> > regards
> Don't forget to try the various BSDs. As long as your BSD can run qemu
> or another VM, you can use Debian for that one or two programs that
> don't work under your chosen BSD. I think that with a bind mount you
> can even read and write the same filesystem your BSD writes, but am not
> sure.
And the new crop of Solaris based distros.  SmartOS looks awfully sweet 
for servers.  Lack of Xen support is the primary thing holding me back.

Miles Fidelman

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