On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We can expect a fork in the kernel fairly soon, about as soon as certain > leaders in the community are confident they can make the current main branch > the meaningless one going forward.
I'm a user, not a kernel dev, and definitely not someone who's majorly into politics. A few years ago, unsatisfied with sysvinit, I started installing Upstart on all my Debian systems, and apart from being unable to use "apt-get dist-upgrade" (which asks to remove upstart and reinstall sysvinit), everything worked fine. Now, with Debian Jessie on the way, I've started learning systemd, because Upstart is apparently a dead end, and systemd is the way to go. Please, can someone explain - without too much on the politics, if that's possible - whether it's right for me to invest time into learning systemd? I get very tired of the endless arguments (Open Office vs Libre Office, cdrecord vs wodim, ffmpeg vs avconv - at least in those cases, the replacement is mostly drop-in), and frankly, I have a highly pragmatic approach to my init system: it should boot my system, and it should be possible for me to configure a program to be invoked. So is systemd the future, or are we going to have another massive argument? ChrisA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/captjjmqe7kabz5qb8y3nf3rzfhq0jy-rykwn1ktoy8qwuqi...@mail.gmail.com
