On Monday, October 20, 2014, Israel G. Lugo <israel.l...@lugosys.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Not intending to start a flame war here. I have been referred to the > website below, and believe they certainly raise some valid concerns. > > http://www.debianfork.org/ > > If you have the time, please take a moment to read over the text, and > follow a few links. I am quoting the first few paragraphs as a summary: > > > We are Veteran Unix Admins and we are concerned about what is > > happening to Debian GNU/Linux to the point of considering a > > fork of the project. > > > > Some of us are upstream developers, some professional > > sysadmins: we are all concerned peers interacting with Debian > > and derivatives on a daily basis. > > > > We don't want to be forced to use systemd in substitution to > > the traditional UNIX sysvinit init, because systemd betrays > > the UNIX philosophy. > > > > We contemplate adopting more recent alternatives to sysvinit, > > but not those undermining the basic design principles of "do > > one thing and do it well" with a complex collection of dozens > > of tightly coupled binaries and opaque logs. > > I understand discussion on this matter has been quite polarized in some > circles. As stated, it's not my intention to start an argument on > whether A is better than B, nor do I believe that to be the site's > purpose. Rather, I would like to divulge and hopefully incite some > productive discussion. > > Regards, > Israel G. Lugo > A diversity of implementations does a good ecosystem make. CB
