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From: "Marc Stürmer" <mail@×××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:55:06
Message-Id: 547370D2.50009@marc-stuermer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now by Philip Webb
1 Am 21.11.2014 um 18:36 schrieb Philip Webb:
2
3 > Adoption of Systemd by other major distros sb good for Gentoo.
4 > Disgruntled Debians, Fedoras, Archies (IIRC they've also adopted it)
5 > will have a choice of giving in or moving to Slackware or Gentoo.
6
7 Well, Gentoo is for sure quite a different beast compared to Fedora,
8 Debian or Ubuntu.
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10 I don't think so, that many people are going to switch to Gentoo just
11 because of Systemd, because of the differences between Gentoo and e.g.
12 Debian.
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14 All other major distros are: binary distributed (timesaver!), have a
15 steady release cycle (contrary to Gentoo's rolling upgrade) and each
16 version has a documented feature set.
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18 Especially in server environments many people don't want to compile
19 their stuff on production environment and have a rolling upgrade
20 distribution. And especially in server environments there seems to be
21 the biggest resistance against systemd.
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23 So naturally they would look for something that has a steady release
24 cycle and is binary distributed, without systemd.
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26 E.g. Slackware or FreeBSD does fit that niche.

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Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk@×××××.com>