[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian ditching sysvinit

[Christopher Cox]

On 10/28/2013 06:40 PM, Ralph Green wrote:
> Chris,
>   First, let me say that I don't have a strong preference. Upstart has
> never given me any problems and it does seemed to have made booting
> faster.  Systemd has worked OK for me.  But, I don't modify init
> scripts that often.  I mostly add and delete a few services, and that
> works ok.
> 
>   What do you think Debiian ought to do?  According to the article,
> the vote seemed stacked to go with upstart.  Going with systemd would
> allow better compatability with rhel and suse.  I think your concern
> is mostly around exotic hardware, but I'd like to know what else I
> should be looking out for.

My personal belief is that if you don't go systemd, there will be issues.

And.. if we go systemd, enterprises are going to break hard...

Time will tell.. systemd is coming, like it or not... well.. maybe not for
Debian, not for Ubuntu and not for Gentoo.

:)

Debian will likely vote upstart just because of the Ubuntu folks.

But.. who knows?  It's been a crazy year in Linux land this year.  And IMHO,
some of it, while well intended, not really good....

One step forward, two steps backward....