On Fri, 2018-10-19 at 11:35 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Martin Steigerwald - 19.10.18, 10:57: > > That written, I estimate or guess that the people preferring to use > > another initialization system than the initialization system in > > Systemd are in the minority. Yet, this minority might be larger > > than > > you think. Especially as popularity contest does not count the ones > > who switched over to Devuan: > […] > > Okay, let's add some numbers: > > Debian and all the other Debian derived distributions: > - 3109 (=1,55%) installations of sysvinit-core > - 2031 (=1,01%) installations of runit -68 runit-systemd -6 of runit- > sysv (counted above already) > - 110 (=0,05) installations of openrc, but it works on top of > sysvinit > - https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=sysvinit (and so on)
I think you forgot Ubuntu as a Debian-derived distribution... If you already include extra data, one shouldn't neglect that one. > Devuan: > - 2578 installations of sysvinit-core (and I just added two more by > installing popularity-contest on my Devuan based server VMs) > - 27 installations of runit > - 141 installations of openrc, installations of openrc, but it works > on > top of sysvinit > - http://popcon.devuan.org/tmp-www/by_inst.html > > So Devuan almost doubles the percentage of sysvinit- > core installations. And Ubuntu probably reduces it again by more than that. Statistics are fun :-) Ansgar