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		vertex-four on April 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Boycott systemd > Isn't this exactly what made the Linux Kernel great? A consistent vision. Sure, but even today, the Linux kernel has competition. I can run most things on Windows or OSX or FreeBSD or Solaris, even if the technical details are different. I worry about a monoculture forming around systemd, as seems to be happening now; I can't find a modern distro that uses anything else (aside from Gentoo, which I can't take seriously for production work), and it's starting to be assumed that systemd is the only init system that anybody will use.

pavanky on April 24, 2014 [–]

> it's starting to be assumed that systemd is the only init system that anybody will use.

You can still use Windows, OSX or FreeBSD.

vertex-four on April 25, 2014 | [–]

Yes, I can, but I used to have choice within the Linux ecosystem. Now I do not. Having choice taken away is not a good thing.

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