On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:54:26 +0100 Marc Stürmer <m...@marc-stuermer.de> wrote:
> Am 21.11.2014 um 18:36 schrieb Philip Webb: > > > Adoption of Systemd by other major distros sb good for Gentoo. > > Disgruntled Debians, Fedoras, Archies (IIRC they've also adopted it) > > will have a choice of giving in or moving to Slackware or Gentoo. > > Well, Gentoo is for sure quite a different beast compared to Fedora, > Debian or Ubuntu. > > I don't think so, that many people are going to switch to Gentoo just > because of Systemd, because of the differences between Gentoo and e.g. > Debian. I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing window button "x" to the upper-left corner of the window in Unity of Ubuntu 12.04 while I used to look for it in the upper-right corner. :) So, I see no reason that those that hate systemd would not do the same. > All other major distros are: binary distributed (timesaver!), I disagree: the downloading all that crap also takes a lot of time. > have a steady release cycle (contrary to Gentoo's rolling upgrade) Steady "release cycle" is also not so good. Back to my example: I used to Ubunto 10.04 LTS with Gnome 2 and out of a sudden I was supposed to switch to Unity on Ubuntu 12.04. It led to the protest. :) > Especially in server environments many people don't want to compile > their stuff on production environment and have a rolling upgrade > distribution. May be. I do not run servers so far. Only a couple of desktops. > And especially in server environments there seems to be > the biggest resistance against systemd. > > So naturally they would look for something that has a steady release > cycle and is binary distributed, without systemd. > > E.g. Slackware or FreeBSD does fit that niche.
