Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:38:18 -1000 Joel Roth sent:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 06:08:49PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Charlie writes:
> > > Though I'm not a programmer and really know very little about
> > > Debian [as someone once said - the lifetime learning experience]
> > > imagine the installer could present a choice of systemd or sys**
> > > whatever? The wiki could point out advantages and disadvantages
> > > of both?
> >
> > That is being vigorously debate on debian-devel. The technical
> > committee ruled that Systemd should be come the default init system
> > (though that decision could be overruled by the developers in
> > General Resolution) but the details are still being discussed. It
> > seems clear to me that you are not going to get silently "upgraded"
> > when you do a dist-upgrade.
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/msg00977.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/09/msg00004.html
>
>
> > --
> > John Hasler
> > jhasler@newsguy.com
> > Elmwood, WI USA
>
> --
> Joel Roth
Good news and reasoning. Having a choice of sys to use in Debian is
well within it's charter I feel.
Thank you for the links.
Charlie
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