Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

George Herbert wrote:
> > On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:03 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
> >
> > GNOME is probably the linchpin.
> >
> > But it's not just RH.  It's Debian, and by extension *buntu, and SuSE, and
> > at least one other major independent parent distro that I can't think of
> > just now...
> >
> > And as far as I know, it's done; SuSE packages already largely don't even
> > include initscripts.
> Enough to make a grown man fork RHEL (or, CentOS).
Which leads me to ask - those of you running server farms - what distros 
are popular these days, for server-side operations?  We've been running 
Debian like forever (by way of Solaris and redhat) - but this systemd 
thing is making me rethink things.  Seems like an awful lot of folks are 
now designing for the desktop, and it might be time to migrate to a BSD 
or Solaris derivative.  What are others doing?

Miles Fidelman

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