On 25/10/14 12:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 24 oct 14, 14:24:31, Peter Nieman wrote:And there should be ethical considerations, e. g. to not expose the users by default to software that due to its complexity and technical characteristics might facilitate intrusion and spying.Dam'it, we must get rid of X.
1. X isn't an init system, it's not running as PID 1 and is not essential on a Debian machine.
2. As far as I know, X developers never openly declared their intention to transform Linux into an entirely different OS and radically change the way every distribution works.
3. There's no alternative to X so far, but there are several alternatives to systemd, and one of them has worked perfectly well for most people until the present day.