[ale] Debian fork thoughts?

[leam hall]

Nothing I've heard about systemd makes me think it's an improvement
for the standard server. Nothing I've heard about the originator
changes that opinion.

Just because the developers have moved on does not make it a good idea.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 06:37:11AM -0500, Wolf Halton wrote:
>> Does this systemd vs init controversy actually lead out to anything
>> useful?  I reboot my laptop a lot and I have never pined away for a faster
>> boot time.  Ubuntu Studio 14.04LTS  seems to be running both daemons, but
>> starting with init.
>
> It's not so much a controversy as a whole lot of armchair
> quarterbacking; meanwhile the folks doing the actual work have long
> since moved on.  :)
>
> Anyway. Faster boot times is a pretty minor benefit to systemd compared
> to many of the other under-the-hood design principles, though it's
> probably the most visible one to laypersons.  (It's actually a
> beneficial side-effect rather than something was designed in from the
> outset)
>
> BTW, Ubuntu 14.04 uses upstart, not systemd or sysvinit, though IIRC in
> the 15.10 timeframe it's supposed to switch to systemd.
>
>  - Solomon
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