<p dir="ltr">Slackware?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 1, 2014 1:46 PM, "leam hall" <<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com">leamhall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Jeremy and Solomon,<br>
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As a non-Debian person I appreciate your insights. I really would like<br>
a cleaner OS but systemd is not my cup of tea.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
Leam<br>
<br>
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On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse<br>
<<a href="mailto:jeremy.bouse@undergrid.net">jeremy.bouse@undergrid.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Brief disclaimer beforehand... I'm a Debian Developer and have been part of<br>
> the project since 2001.<br>
><br>
> Now, that said, I'm not giving this "fork" any of my time based solely on<br>
> the behavior of the anti-systemd individuals that have, and still, caused<br>
> disruptions on the mailing lists, irc chat rooms and an other medium they<br>
> could. They have tried repeated to work against the established methods to<br>
> do things and when they couldn't pigeon-hole and force the results they<br>
> wanted caused even more problems. Finally they have decided to fork the<br>
> project which as someone else already pointed out is going to be a<br>
> derivative that is almost 99% original to upstream just simply stripping out<br>
> the entire systemd system which already can be removed and use SysV init<br>
> with a shim for systemd that allows those aspects that have hard-coded<br>
> dependencies on systemd (namely GNOME comes to mind as the biggest reason<br>
> requiring systemd).<br>
><br>
> If they could have found a better way to argue their point I might give what<br>
> they have to say some bearing but they have been unable to do so and I<br>
> highly doubt they ever will. I expect this forked derivative to be very<br>
> volatile and as an IT professional wouldn't use it for anything more than a<br>
> throw away virtual machine if I did look at it.<br>
><br>
> On 01.12.2014 12:23, leam hall wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> You've probably seen the news that Debian has forked. I'm interested<br>
>> in a much smaller OS that works. Would love to hear your perspectives<br>
>> on this. It seems like a Good Thing (tm).<br>
>><br>
>> Leam<br>
><br>
><br>
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