2012/8/17 Geoff <capsthorne@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:22:56 -0500 > Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > <snip> > > I agree. I have read all the current threads and the few words which struck me > with greatest force were in a post from Marti Raudsepp, where he said that an > advantage of systemd is "... less fragmentation between Linux distribution". I > have been full time on linux for nearly 13 years now, with the most recent five > of those on Arch, and for me one of the principal attractions of the OS has > always been fragmentation between distributions. The recent changes to Arch > (and I dare say other distros which I do not monitor), all seem to me to point > in the direction of drab ecumenism - eventually "One distro to rule them > all ...." Sooner or later Arch will be distinguished only by its excellent > rolling release model and the wonderful pacman. Perhaps all this was > inevitable. I do not intend anything I say as a criticism of the devs - it is > their distro and they are entitled to do what they choose with it. But it does > make me sad. Before Ubuntu start upstart, there is simply no choice but sysvinit. No one complain it will end up to "One distro to rule them all ....". Leon > > Geoff
