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Posted Nov 19, 2014 17:42 UTC (Wed) by gb (subscriber, #58328)
In reply to: Thanks by tjc
Parent article: Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson

> Not necessarily; there are still alternatives for those who don't care for systemd: Slackware, Gentoo, Crux -- perhaps others that I don't know about. And one can always switch to FreeBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, etc. without too much trouble. systemd is dominant, but not exclusive.

I am tied to Linux not just as a hobby, but also at work. Debian at home, Red Hat at work. Every day I develop software for Linux on Linux, deploy software, packaging software, parsing logs, etc. This all soon be changed by systemd, wayland. New Linux. I hope it wouldn't like Gnome 3.

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Posted Nov 22, 2014 10:44 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Well, the systemd guys seem to view backwards compatibility as important. If you want to use systemd pid1 just to fire off your old SysVInit scripts and not use their new config files, that's a design goal. If it doesn't work, file a bug report.

And Wayland is being developed by the X guys. In effect it's X13 (seeing as the moniker X12 is already taken). So again, any failure in compatibility is a good candidate for a bug report.

Cheers,
Wol