Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 12/01/2014 04:18 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Ric Moore wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >>
> >>> I fear that once systemd is firmly entrenched in Debian as the
> >>> default init more distros will follow suit, and more and more
> >>> developers will start writing apps with systemd, or parts of it,
> >>> as a dependency for the "features" it offers.
> >>
> >> Every other distro of merit has long since made the switch. We're
> >> just late to the party. Are you just figuring it out now? Ric
> >
> > Depends on what you mean by "distros of merit."
> >
> > Last time I checked -- two or three weeks ago -- only 6 distros
> > besides Jessie were using systemd as the default: Fedora 15,
> > RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Arch, OpenSUSE, and SUSE Server. Just read today
> > OpenMandriva uses it. Probably Mandriva, too. Haven't checked. So,
> > 9 total including Jessie. In any case, not a long list.
> >
> > I've also just read of a systemd-less fork of Jessie/Debian.
> > Debuan, I think it's called.
> >
> > So, it's started.
>
> Thank $DEITY$.
>
> By the way, the list provided is about 90% of the total usage in
> servers and desktops. Include Ubuntu and it's flavors as well. :/ Ric
But how many of the systemd versions are actually in use in all those
servers and desktops? More importantly: Who will be upgrading or
installing the systemd versions in the future? Will they replace
systemd with another init if they do? Will be interesting to see what
transpires.
B
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