On 11/21/14 07:32, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Paige Thompson <erra...@yourstruly.sx> wrote: >> I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux >> is not linux anymore: >> http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/ > I highly recommend the article John Corbet wrote for LWN a week ago: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/619992/ > > TL;DR, the sky is not falling, let's see how systemd evolves and > succeds, fails, or it's replaced. > >> I kinda have to agree which is partially why I'm not using it. Will >> Gentoo have any plans of forcing its users to move to systemd or will I >> always (such as its always roughly been) have the option of using init >> and openrc as it is now? > As long as there are developers willing and able to support OpenRC in > Gentoo (and it looks like there are), that will be the case. To make > sure that this remains to be true, help them. > > I personally have no reasons currently to >> switch from one to the other. It seems like it might be a great thing if >> you have linux containers. > It's actually a great thing for a lot of use cases. But it doesn't > seem that Gentoo will change defaults soon, although systemd works > great with it. > > Regards. Great article, I should merely point out it's ridiculous that people get so bent out of shape over computer software. It contrasted the transition of devfs to udev well which I can relate to and thought of in my previous response. I was trying to explain I don't really know enough about either systemd or openrc to say whether or not support for one or the other will ever be dropped.
My deal is I have everything I want setup, it works and I want to leave it that way. I deal with security problems and updates proactively and on a case-by-case and as-per-needed basis. I'm not looking forward to migrating to systemd if I don't need to but I will if that's what it takes to get back to my real work with the peace of mind that I can still install new software if I choose to and actually be able to use it.
