Steve McIntyre wrote:
Joey Hess wrote:-=-=-=-=-=- Miles Fidelman wrote:But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to do so, particularly when this concerns production servers.Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your production servers with sysvinit. A reasonably proactive admin would probably want to try out systemd (on eg, a test server) and if it causes problems for their deployment, they then have at least the year or two from when Debian jessie is released until the *next* release to file bug reports and follow up on them.Nah, clearly it's much more productive to spend way more time spouting FUD on mailing lists than actually testing such things.
Of course Joey is correct regarding trying out systemd on a test server. Personally, though, I find it a lot MORE productive to keep track of other people's experience in testing things, and deploy after a release is really, really stable... and STILL do a lot of testing.
I assume you find it more productive to bury your head in the sand about potential impacts of really major changes to the plumbing of a platform, and wait for things to break after-the-fact?
Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra