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So, do you think the adoption of systemd was motivated to a great extent by the influence of commercial companies' interest? Would you say that's true for distr
by einpoklum 4y ago
So, do you think the adoption of systemd was motivated to a great extent by the influence of commercial companies' interest? Would you say that's true for distributions like Debian, which you gave as an example?
I'm not being facetious, it's just that this aspect has not been described to me so far, IIRC.
- b112 4y agoSystemd was a child of Redhat. Debian had to support it, mostly because at the time Gnome, another Redhat controlled project, decided to depend upon systemd.
- einpoklum 4y ago1. Supporting it is not the same as mandating it (which it effectively has) 2. You're saying that Debian made this choice because of a choice by GNOME. But - was GNOME strong-armed by commercial interests? 3. AFAIK, The dependence of GNOME on systemd was broken quite easily (IIANM mostly by using a forked elogind).
- b112 4y agoGnome was at the time defacto controlled by redhat. Regardless of now, at the time, there was no alternative such as elogind.