[175406] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Tue Oct 21 18:01:10 2014
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:00:22 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
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Philip Dorr wrote:
> Could someone comment on why they chose systemd over upstart (other
> than the Canonical CLA)? Or point to an article on it?
If you want to wade into the mess, the archives of the Debian Tech.
Committee (https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/), for Dec 2013-March
2014, make for some interesting reading (if you have a Baroque sense of
what's interesting).
The voting is documented here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708 (I think -
Debian decision making is incredibly convoluted.)
This article has some background that's reasonably accurate:
http://www.zdnet.com/debian-inches-towards-new-init-system-decision-amid-fallout-7000026128/
I seem to recall a summary document comparing the various available init
systems, and how systemd came out on top - but I'll be damned if I can
find it now. Some of the position statements are linked from here:
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem
Miles Fidelman
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