Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 23, 2013 0:26 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: Which init system for Debian? by ovitters
Parent article: Which init system for Debian?

That might have been an important consideration for Squeeze; Gnome used to be a major player in desktop Linux. But for Jessie? I hardly see that what the Gnome guys want matters much. Debian has moved to XFCE as their default desktop. I'd be more interested in what the XFCE, Cinnamon, and MATE guys can make best use of.

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 23, 2013 0:31 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

That isn't quite accurate. At this point, they haven't made any final decisions for their release yet.

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git;a...

Note that Debian switched to Xfce before and then reverted the decision so it is unclear at this point what the release default will be. I don't think the choice of desktop environment is a big influence over the current debate however. So this is somewhat of a side discussion prompted by one of the changes.

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 23, 2013 9:37 UTC (Sat) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (1 responses)

In an ideal world, the fact that Gnome requires systemd should make Debian's switching to it an easier decision …

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 24, 2013 12:32 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I think GNOME requires the systems DBus interface. If Debian implements it for Upstart, that should be sufficient.