-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 -- re-post to luv-main FYI -- On 12/10/2014 4:59 PM, Timothy Rice wrote:
I guess if the kernel becomes inextricably bound to systemd, then gentoo will be forced to switch. This would make gentoo less favourable as an alternative for people seeking to escape systemd, and might furthermore drive away existing gentoo users. I suppose all these people would switch to FreeBSD. Would that be so bad?
For Debian people, an easier migration path that seems very viable today will be kFreeBSD -- and then if that goes seriously bad too, it is a closer step to FreeBSD (at least a little bit closer). This penned as possible news on kFreeBSD for upcoming publicity: https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2014/10/msg00146.html - "GNU/kFreeBSD "bits", publicity, status report" - - following on thread of "kFreeBSD future" https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2014/09/msg00280.html In a nutshell: MATE, not gnome no systemd, freedesktop.org sysvinit, potentially OpenRC later consolekit patched 90% compiled base very usable desktop (not just for servers) I've got to specifically quote this small, but important /delicate/ section of Steven Chamberlain message: <quote> * (delicately!) mention init system, still being a hot topic - no udev or systemd here; I guess that makes us a "traditional" Debian flavour, UNIX-like and POSIX-focused - we did lose GNOME (I think mainly due to logind, but also libgbm) - otherwise, we seem to have all we need; Robert fixed up consolekit - we chose to keep sysvinit as default, but are in a position to easily use alternate init systems; OpenRC looks promising for the future (perhaps usable already?); I guess file-rc still works </quote> *Much* progress from Wheezy, very promising future. A. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iF4EAREIAAYFAlQ6cZkACgkQqBZry7fv4vvJbwEAxAtpPMBqACDd3vSFXuv6H6zQ Drw9TYUKozXny0Oq9x0A+weQ9HtfVA9bCCC70Y1fA31phCn37npBfboOSXJVN9oq =f702 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----