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On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Paige Thompson <erratic@××××××××××.sx> wrote: |
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> I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux |
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> is not linux anymore: |
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> http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/ |
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I highly recommend the article John Corbet wrote for LWN a week ago: |
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http://lwn.net/Articles/619992/ |
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TL;DR, the sky is not falling, let's see how systemd evolves and |
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succeds, fails, or it's replaced. |
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> I kinda have to agree which is partially why I'm not using it. Will |
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> Gentoo have any plans of forcing its users to move to systemd or will I |
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> always (such as its always roughly been) have the option of using init |
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> and openrc as it is now? |
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As long as there are developers willing and able to support OpenRC in |
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Gentoo (and it looks like there are), that will be the case. To make |
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sure that this remains to be true, help them. |
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I personally have no reasons currently to |
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> switch from one to the other. It seems like it might be a great thing if |
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> you have linux containers. |
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It's actually a great thing for a lot of use cases. But it doesn't |
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seem that Gentoo will change defaults soon, although systemd works |
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great with it. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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