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It's called GNU/Systemd. Poettering is certainly master of userspace but I think it was Karen Sandler who really pulled the strings. She was executive directory

by jart 6y ago

It's called GNU/Systemd. Poettering is certainly master of userspace but I think it was Karen Sandler who really pulled the strings. She was executive directory of GNOME and she went to the distros and was like, look, GNOME is going to make Systemd a hard requirement so you can either use it, or not have a desktop anymore. And that's why every Linux distro abandoned System 5 for System 500, with the exception of ones intended to run inside Docker containers like Alpine.

versteegen 6y ago
But not everyone uses GNOME and therefore not every distro uses systemd. Slackware still doesn't, and it's not some kind of minimal-for-Docker distro. Edit: Actually I see that GNOME doesn't require (since 3.30?) systemd: it can be used with just elogind. (Slackware actually recently adopted elogind for KDE and Xfce). Gentoo is another distro that doesn't require systemd (it's actually optional).
zxzax 6y ago
>it was Karen Sandler who really pulled the strings I would be interested to hear a source for that because I never heard of such a thing. I heard the exact opposite, that GNOME is still open to keeping things working on BSD. The latest version in FreeBSD is GNOME 3.36.