Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?
On Wednesday 14 October 2015 13:49:08 Richard Owlett wrote:
> Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> writes:
> >>[SNIP]
> >>
> >> what did they do to poll the views of the user community on the
> >> question?
> >
> > If you want to know how Debian's technical committee came to choose
> > systemd as the default init, see [2].
> >
> > [2] <https://bugs.debian.org/727708>
>
> That page explicitly answers "How?" [with a emphasis perhaps on
> the mechanics on how the formal side of the Debian community works].
>
> An underlying incompletely answered question is "Why?"
> There have been partial answers written by and for geeks.
> What has the end-user, with a single machine, gained today from
> the adoption of systemd?
Far faster boot up and shut down times. And it does seem to be much faster.
> During the furor I tried chasing down links by systemd
> proponents. All I found were descriptions of how it made life
> easier for developers and those administering multi-user systems.
Most of the furor I have seen has been the complete opposite. Developers and
systems administrators complaining that systemd made life harder.
Please note that I am not saying that all administrators and developers said
that. Merely that most of those complaining at least claim to be
administrators etc., and claim that systemd is only really an advantage to
the single desktop user.
Lisi
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