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> “the maintainers" (i.e., Lennart and friends) Huh what? The Debian discussion was completely in the open, and I recommend reading it, so you know why people
by theamk 7y ago
> “the maintainers" (i.e., Lennart and friends)
Huh what? The Debian discussion was completely in the open, and I recommend reading it, so you know why people choose systemd.
There was no Lennart’s influence, everyone was their own people. No one had red hat agenda. All they wanted a better init system, it ended up being a choice between systemd and upstart, and systemd won with a small margin. A later GR vote across thousands of debian debs confirmed the decision.
Really, why do those theories gets repeated? We are not talking about commercial companies and back room office politics, it is all in the open.
- michaelmrose 7y agoIf they opted for gnome it was going to be hard to avoid also picking systemd.
- m45t3r 7y agoHard, not impossible. Void Linux is using elogind: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/gdm/template https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcp... And BTW, if you don't like the way that Gnome is going you can fork it or use another desktop. There are multiple desktops for Linux that are very polished and doesn't depend on systemd.