who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)
Folks,
All the discussion about systemd, and what I perceive as a shift in
priority, for the Debian developer community, of putting desktop users
ahead of server-side users, has me
me seriously looking at:
1. maintaining my older Debian distro as long as possible
2. migrating to a new distro that is more focused on server-side,
production use
I migrated to Debian about 20 years ago - starting with Solaris, then
migrating to Red Hat, then ending up with Debian - the first two based
on what hosting providers where offering, Debian when we moved to our
own servers. It's been rock solid for us, up until udev caused a bunch
of hiccups a few years back (software that changes configurations in
unexpected ways wreaks havoc on production systems). Systemd scares the
living daylights out of me - as much for the attitude of its developers
as anything else. It's looking more and more like time to move on to
either a BSD or Open Solaris based platform (with ZFS as a bonus) - lack
of Xen support is about the only thing holding me back.
I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar
conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is
looking better and better).
Miles Fidelman
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