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From: Stef <not@this.address.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What distros *don't* use systemd ?
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 15:42:23 +0000 (UTC)
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Marc Haber wrote:

> Stef <not@this.address.com> wrote:
>>Currently, yes.  However, for next release, Debian 8 Jessie, due out
>>next May or so, but in Beta now, systemd will be the default.  Lots of
>>gnashing of teeth on the Debian mail lists about that,
>
> Debian's Technical Committee has ruled that systemd will be the
> default, but other init systems should remain possible, leaving the
> choice to the user.

I don't think that choice will be viable for long.

> However, at the rate that support for "older" tools that do not
> originate from the systemd universe is vanishing from the various
> software products, it looks unlikely that one will be able, for
> example, to run a modern desktop environment on Jessie without
> systemd.

Obsolescence is a result of inovation.

> I'd say, that's not what the Debian Technical Committee has intended.

The road to damnation has always been paved with good intent. ;-)