[175417] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Oct 21 21:03:28 2014
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:03:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com>
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:29:44 -0400, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
> wrote:
> > The thing that I don't understand about systemd is how it managed to
> > get *EVERY SINGLE DISTRIBUTION'S RELEASE MANAGER* on board...
>
> It's spelled "Red Hat". Add in GNOME and debian (et. al.) is backed into a
> corner. Red Hat is soo f'ing big, pretty much every project under the sun
> is going to stop maintaining scripts in favor of systemd.
GNOME is probably the linchpin.
But it's not just RH. It's Debian, and by extension *buntu, and SuSE, and
at least one other major independent parent distro that I can't think of
just now...
And as far as I know, it's done; SuSE packages already largely don't even
include initscripts.
Cheers,
-- jra
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