Some unreliable predictions for 2015

Posted Jan 15, 2015 16:44 UTC (Thu) by phred14 (guest, #60633)
In reply to: Some unreliable predictions for 2015 by mirabilos
Parent article: Some unreliable predictions for 2015

Implicit in this prediction appears to be the assumption that "systemd will win", and sysv, upstart, and even those Linux distributions using a bsd-style init will all move to systemd.

NOTHING in Unix or Linux has been like this - ever. Both emacs and vi are still with us, decades later. We still have sendmail, postfix, courier, exim, etc. We still have DJB versions of various programs, along with the non-DJB versions. About the closest thing we have to a monoculture is XOrg, but that wasn't by Xorg trying to stamp out SVGALIB, and even now XOrg isn't trying to stamp out Mir or Wayland.

I would like to see the systemd wars die down, too. I would just like to see it die down with several distributions using it, several distributions using other init systems, and just have the flaming stop.

Some unreliable predictions for 2015

Posted Jan 16, 2015 11:47 UTC (Fri) by hitmark (guest, #34609) [Link]

There is a certain difference though. Most of those are either end programs (they don't interact with other programs, only the user) or have strongly defined interfaces between themselves and the rest of the ecosystem.

Some unreliable predictions for 2015

Posted Jan 16, 2015 16:28 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

> Implicit in this prediction appears to be the assumption that "systemd will win", and sysv, upstart, and even those Linux distributions using a bsd-style init will all move to systemd.

systemd has won, the big three PC distros Debian, Redhat, SuSE are using it, mobile Tizen, Jolla are using it, thats a sufficient de-facto standard. It doesn't matter if Gentoo or Slackware uses it, it'd be better if they didn't so that there is always room around the edges for people to get together and try different things, bsd or sysv or whatever.