Debian Developers Take To Voting Over Init System Diversity

[intelfx]

It's not trolling (about other distros providing better freedom and being less exclusive towards sysadmins and devs) though, it's a metaphor. Apart from limited PID 1 freedom, Gentoo-based distros do allow customising packages via USE flags which in turn allows syadmins not to build apache, php or other nonsense on their own via Makefiles or roll-out own rpms/debs just to workaround some distro packaging decisions they find unacceptable, making it more welcoming environment for them.

Yes, it is. Even if what you wrote is factually correct to some degree, the distinctly non-neutral language you use puts your post firmly in the “trolling” category.

Also, I assume, there will be no other objections to the substance of my reply?

[intelfx]

Freedesktop.org has never been a "standard" kinda website for Linux. Only to correct this misinformation. Freedesktop.org is a selfdeclared standards website created by former GNOME developers. Just because there is some "interaction" with developers from other projects, still doesnt make it a Linux standards declaring page.

Every standards body is self-declared at first.

Collaboratively-developed body of information that facilitates interaction of independent working groups is, by definition, a standard, regardless of who published it.

Or do you want an ISO standard on init systems in Linux?

People only meet there to get information hin how to fix their software from the insanity that has been made up there.

Obvious trolling attempt rejected.

[reavertm]

You appear to be hinting at the claim that in order for "systemd" to win, it will need just a plurality against all other options, not a majority?

I'm going to ignore that obvious trolling attempt with "fascism" and "freedom"
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It's not trolling (about other distros providing better freedom and being less exclusive towards sysadmins and devs) though, it's a metaphor. Apart from limited PID 1 freedom, Gentoo-based distros do allow customising packages via USE flags which in turn allows syadmins not to build apache, php or other nonsense on their own via Makefiles or roll-out own rpms/debs just to workaround some distro packaging decisions they find unacceptable, making it more welcoming environment for them.

[Candy]

Freedesktop.org has never been a "standard" kinda website for Linux. Only to correct this misinformation. Freedesktop.org is a selfdeclared standards website created by former GNOME developers. Just because there is some "interaction" with developers from other projects, still doesnt make it a Linux standards declaring page. People only meet there to get information hin how to fix their software from the insanity that has been made up there.

[oiaohm]

systemd is a system developed by a IBM affiliated called Red Hat, it his no standard to anybody..

When I mean a Open Standard... I mean it.

Not quite right.
Please notice where systemd is hosted.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/

That right

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/

The reason why systemd interfaces are so well documented is that systemd is hosted on a site for prototype open standards and finalised standards for Linux computers.

So it is no standard is not exactly right. Systemd is a prototype open standard like it or not.

The way Freedesktop on standard create is that you have to have working well documented implementation before you formally submit finalised standard. No point approving something if it cannot work.

Also please remember sysvinit did not have a official open standard either. No init system I know of has ever had a open standard. Maybe systemd will be the first.

[AnonymousCoward]

I used systemd on Debian since well before it was even part of the distribution, it was really quite good then

Must be because of your custom twiddling, because debian jessie beta did not even finish booting on my machine, so much that for the first time (and I am here since potato) I reverted from a beta to an older stable version of debian.

, and now it enables like... half the important infrastructure for a decent workstation or desktop, including many things that didn't work well or at all when systemd was birthed. It isn't more memory-intensive than other init systems, it is generally faster, it is dead simple to configure, it is the default on every major distribution, it is maintained well by a dedicated team of developers.

Then you load up ubuntu on an otherwise decent lenovo t410, it's slower booting than mxlinux (sysvinit booting with some systemd components for compatibility sake), it is slow overall, its bigger footprint yields less apps because for some reason they run snaps instead of debs, the usb installer has lost functionality reverting to a simple dd, while mxlinux has a great usb installer and great live tools making debian-live pale in comparison... but at least ubuntu shuts down faster. Which is much appreciated because shutting down is a relief. BTW Alpine linux on servers is lightning fast. Voidlinux manages to do everything fast using runit.

There is no good reason to impose the cost of maintaining non-systemd init scripts on every Debian package maintainer, to satisfy a group of people who appear to have few or no valid practical concerns. If your init system is so great, go ahead and write the missing units/scripts for it yourself, like I did many years ago with systemd; if it's too hard for an intermediate user to accomplish that, is your init system even worth considering?

If that were the case, debian would sail peacefully and not have meetings about returning to... be a UNIVERSAL operating system. Probably it is happening what conspiracy theorists (about systemd being a way for redhat to turn linux into a windows-like admin revenue stream) feared.

[oiaohm]

If your daddy would know how dumb you are he would sell you for a petmonkey.

No you are the stupid monkey. Deleting your post did not delete everything of yours I quoted.

roll back to the original sysVinit

This fact of what you said is still here. Linux distributions never used the using original sysVinit.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sysvinit

sysvinit is a collection of System V-style init programs originally written by Miquel van Smoorenburg. They include init, which is run by the kernel as process 1, and is the parent of all other processes.

It System V-style init and always has been its not the original sysVinit its always been a clone independently developed with a few more unique bugs. The original is the one that shiped with UNIX System V. Fun part is UNIX System V did not recycle PID numbers instead once you had used every single PID number once it kernel panicked so System V init design is perfect on UNIX System V. Using UNIX System V using 32 bit counter for PID numbers this takes awhile before system would panic. Where the Linux kernel default is like 32768 2^15 pid numbers so these recycle very quickly but the system never panic due to having used all PID numbers.

Anyone who is thinking about upvoting monraaf post I recommend going back and looking at how foolish of a arguement he has had.

Deleting your posts don't cover your foolishness.

[Candy]

So how's the situation around Debian ?

Did they finally blood signed the contract with the devil ?

[tuxd3v]

imbecile, when was last time you were required by law to add and maintain support for several obscure and broken browsers in your package?

woow, you achieved a new low..
You are taking me , as if I was your mother or father..

If you can't hold a stable conversation about something, in a civilised manner.. make a technical retreat to your cave.

[tuxd3v]

it already does. systemd api is published

systemd is a system developed by a IBM affiliated called Red Hat, it his no standard to anybody..

When I mean a Open Standard... I mean it.