On 11/04/2014 01:48 PM, Go Linux (Redacted sender golinux@xxxxxxxxx for DMARC) wrote:
On Tue, 11/4/14, Steve Litt <slitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Subject: [modular-debian] Peter Nieman just told it like it is To: modular-debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: gmane-acct@xxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 12:26 PMHi all,Peter Nieman today expressed the situation beautifully and succintly on Debian-User:https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/11/msg00181.htmlI wish *I* had written that!SteveT
> And to the people who have no problem with the way things are going right now I would say: there's a perfect OS for you already, and it's called Microsoft Windows 7. [Peter Nieman]
Unfortunately I think he's wrong. It's called Windows 10, and looks like everything Gnome-OS aspires to in 5 years. My first thought was systemd is toast, and MS moving on the Linux ecosystem and Red Hat is burning it down in a last ditch defense. It was completely predictable.
-------------------------------------------- Yes, that was about a prefect summary of the situation. Glad you're still reading the user list . . . The freeze is tomorrow so a decision on the GR will have to be made by then unless the freeze is postponed.
It's not a referendum on systemd or the "Unix way," but more an affirmation of existing policy, as I see it. A direct poll on the issue from a poll last year is more informative, but opinion could have shifted since then:
"62.4% voted 'I welcome systemd in Debian, everything is fine'” https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/05/27/systemd-survey-results.html
