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Distro maintainers didn't force you to do anything. They made a decision about how to allocate their limited resources. And we're past the days of Linux being a
by cwyers 8y ago
Distro maintainers didn't force you to do anything. They made a decision about how to allocate their limited resources. And we're past the days of Linux being a primarily volunteer OS, but a fair proportion of distro maintainers are still volunteers. They are not at your beck and call. If you want to have a Linux distro without systemd, there's several. If none of them meet your needs, pitch in with time or money to improve them. The purpose of free-as-in-libre software is that you can do the work yourself, not that you can expect others to do the work for you.
- dijit 8y agoFalse dichotomy. I pay redhat a lot of money, short of paying people full time to maintain a mirror distro of redhat without systemd, which would be impossible given how embedded it has become into everything. Some decisions cannot be unmade. Short of starting from scratch with gentoo (which is a Herculean effort at scale) I’m not sure what you’re saying. I cannot be disgruntled at choices because distro maintainers time is worth more than mine? Fair. But how many people have to be in my shoes for it not to be fair.
- Teknoman117 8y agoThe company I work for runs Gentoo at a global scale...
- dijit 8y agoThen you either make significantly more money than we do or are able to allocate resources to that project as it is key to your business strategy. The main focus of my company is to make Video games. Not maintain operating system distributions. That’s why we pay redhat so much.
- sparewalking 8y agoI think Gentoo scales very easy. Especially in enterprises. One thing I like about Gentoo that no other mainstream distro has is something like this https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-proxy/haproxy https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-proxy/haproxy. That page says that you can install any version of haproxy that suits you. You don't have to upgrade/downgrade the OS just because you need an older or newer piece of software. But, as always, no distro is perfect. Gentoo has its issues too.
- muxator 8y agoYou live in a better place!
- tannhaeuser 8y ago> maintain a mirror distro of redhat without systemd, which would be impossible given how embedded it has become into everything Not RH-based, but have you checked out Devuan (systemd-free Debian)? I've always valued RHEL's (up until 6) stability, but I'm seeing Debian/Ubuntu becoming more and more used in enterprise roles where before these had already been strong in web roles. I'm also seeing a need for a systemd-free minimal O/S for container (not container host) roles.
- josteink 8y ago> False dichotomy. I pay redhat a lot of money Well why are you paying for a distro which doesn't meet your wishes then? Why not choose another one?