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Assuming that everything the author says turns out true - such as the "big one" exploit - in say an year from now, does anybody know any active popular open sou
by lovelearning 12y ago
Assuming that everything the author says turns out true - such as the "big one" exploit - in say an year from now, does anybody know any active popular open source distro that aims to keep systemd away from servers?
- q3k 12y agoGentoo still has OpenRC as the „preferred” init system.
- e7620 12y agoSlackware, CRUX, Funtoo and Gentoo are some distros that follow traditional Unix paradigms and unlikely to adopt systemd.
- peterwwillis 12y agoPatrick has not ruled out using systemd. But if that does happen, I will personally write a tool to drop-in replace all of systemd and return the original sysvinit functionality, and make it work for every distro.
- agwa 12y agoDebian has only made systemd the default, and getting sysvinit back is as simple as running `apt-get install sysvinit-core`. Removing systemd might have consequences for GNOME, but that's not a concern on servers. There is a significant enough anti-systemd contingent in Debian (not to mention Debian also supports kfreebsd, where systemd doesn't run) that I'm confident sysvinit will remain a viable option for servers and non-GNOME desktops on Debian. Even GNOME desktops may work on Debian without systemd thanks to the work being done on systemd-shim.
- lovelearning 12y agoReally appreciate that overview. It does seem that even if the author's concerns are true, we still have good alternatives available.
- keithpeter 12y ago"...and getting sysvinit back is as simple as running `apt-get install sysvinit-core`" Well I gather that is the intention but there are a few bugs at present around that and an ongoing issue about upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie changing the init system silently. See Debian-devel for gory details.
- biot 12y agoTry any of the *BSD OSes.