Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion

Posted Dec 31, 2013 6:16 UTC (Tue) by nirbheek (subscriber, #54111)
In reply to: Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion by aigarius
Parent article: Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion

impact ALL Debian users and all users of all its derivatives, including Ubuntu and SteamOS

SteamOS is based on Debian and already uses systemd, so Debian choosing Upstart would cause social tension. OTOH, Ubuntu has already moved away from GNOME, Debian, and everyone else, so they'd have no problem working on Upstart by themselves—which is what they already do.

Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion

Posted Dec 31, 2013 6:28 UTC (Tue) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link] (1 responses)

Why do people keep saying steamos uses systemd? The news articles about it say it uses sysvinit, the default init of Debian wheezy which it's based off of. I don't see why SteamOS would much care what init system is used, really.

Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion

Posted Dec 31, 2013 6:32 UTC (Tue) by nirbheek (subscriber, #54111) [Link]

Ah, you're right. SteamOS doesn't use systemd. Apologies.

In which case, I think from their perspective, Debian moving to either Upstart or systemd would be the same, so the argument employed by the comment I replied to continues to be invalid.

Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion

Posted Jan 3, 2014 19:47 UTC (Fri) by whiprush (guest, #23428) [Link]

Uhh, Ubuntu has not moved away from being a Debian derivative.