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And systemd proponents shouldn't go out of their way to try to prevent non systemd Linux from existing. All the changes to gnome, which depended 100% upon syst
by b112 4y ago
And systemd proponents shouldn't go out of their way to try to prevent non systemd Linux from existing.
All the changes to gnome, which depended 100% upon systemd at the time, were pushed by redhat, gnome contributers.
This one of the biggest reasons given, for getting systemd into debian at the time.
When systemd was being pushed origionally, fast boot times, predictable names, and a few other things were big reasons. Yet debian already had parallel init booting, and already had predictable interface names.
Systemd has done almost nothing for debian, and has many drawbacks, as you say.
Systemd was a redhat solution, to redhat issues, and redhat used its power in the community to force it through.
There were a lot of outright lies, politics, and more at implementation time. And you're right, part of it was redhat wanting to force systemd, and no other.
- effie 4y agoBut debian has chosen to adopt systemd, so at least some substantial part of Debian developers preferred going with it to keeping the status quo with sysvinit. Maybe they were badly influence by Redhat/Poettering, but it was their call.
- rainbow29822 4y agoOf course they were influenced by the author of programs they use. They were also influenced by Linus Torvalds when they decided to use his kernel. I don't see any problems with this. That's what you do when you make something that you're proud of. You go around to other people and try to convince them to use it.