"Fork Debian" Project Started In Order to Put Pressure on Debian Community and Systemd Adoption

Posted by thesilviu on Oct 20, 2014 5:48 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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The Debian project decided to adopt systemd a while ago and ditch the upstart counterpart. The decision was very controversial and it's still contested by some users. Now, a new proposition has been made, to fork Debian into something that doesn't have systemd.

systemd is the replacement for the init system and it's the daemon that starts right after the Linux kernel. It's responsible for initiating all the other components in a system and it's also responsible for shutting them down in the correct order, so you might imagine why people think this is an important piece of software.

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