[ale] Origins of Linux, do we care?

[Jeff Hubbs]

FWIW, OpenRC is still what Gentoo Linux installs with but there is an 
option in the Handbook to use systemd instead. I tried to go the systemd 
route less than a year ago but I felt like the docs were half-baked and 
I had to bail on it. I doubt I'll try again until systemd becomes the 
Gentoo default.

On 9/19/15 6:42 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:00:12 -0400
> James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:16 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> systemd bothers me at a visceral level
>>
>> I am moving to Void Linux[1] for my personal projects specifically
>> because of it.
> I might be also. I'm experimenting with it right now. Specifically, I'm
> alt-initting it with Epoch, just as a rehearsal to alt-initting a
> systemd distro with Epoch. On Void Linux, X fonts are a little grainy,
> but I've solved that before on other distros.
>
> Regarding making Void my daily driver, I need to make sure there are
> packages for most of the stuff I need, and that there's not some
> horrible thing about it. Then I'll probably go ahead and switch over.
>
> I was going to wait for Devuan to become stable, but now am beginning to
> think the Unix Philosophy adherance of Void might be just what I need.
> And Void doesn't simply continue to init with sysvinit: It inits with
> the superior runit init system.
>
> By the way, the Void Linux IRC channel is #xbps on Freenode, and an
> excellent summary of the xbps package manager is at
> http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=package-management .
>
>> First up, my "router" build. Then my VPS instance and
>> my HTPC. I will have to deal with this systemd crap at work when I
>> eventually have to use RHEL7, but I will not continue to use it
>> outside of work.
> :-)
>
> By that time I'll have instructions on how to alt-init Redhat.
>
> Of course, for the same reason they make you use Redhat, your employer
> probably won't let you alt-init Redhat.
>
> SteveT
>
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