I left Debian for Funtoo and Devuan. The reason was systemd. Debian paid lip service to the alternate init systems, but in reality systemd was slowly but surely becoming required. I left because it was clear they were going in a different direction than I wanted to follow.
You can include me in your list if you want. But I think for a Debian user who is currently questioning the need for systemd, knowing his alternatives is much more useful than knowing that I (some guy they don't know) stopped using Debian. -Rob On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > There's yet another systemd thread on Debian-User, started by a guy who > wrote an intelligent question about why there's no choice of init at > install time: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00472.html > > After a little back and forth, a guy who claims to have used Linux for > 20 years without knowing there's more than one init system, and because > of his personal anecdote he thinks there shouldn't be a choice and says > "Please end this Diskussion and get on with important things." > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00514.html > > A few posts later, a guy basically says "put up or shut up" to the > proposition that the reason there's so little request for sans-systemd > in Debian is because those who don't like systemd moved on: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00540.html > > Can somebody please make a list, that we can put our names on, of > people who left Debian because of systemd? And put the name Steve Litt > on it please. > > We have our quiet sans-systemd corners, and right now they're > comfortable, but remember that the Freedesktop/Redhat/SystemdCabal > consortium has the goal of eliminating systemd as a choice, and they > still have the power to take our init systems away from us, as a > practical matter, so we still need to tell the truth to bullshit like > that on the Debian-User list right now. Obviously there's a technical > component to software choice, but forget at your peril that there's > also a political component. > > Thanks, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > March 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? > http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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