[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

[Christof Damian]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:55, Jon Masters <jonathan at jonmasters.org> wrote:
>>
>> This should probably say "systemd for F16"
>
> +1 FWIW. I'm not a huge sysv fanboi either, but I do care about the
> experience of sysadmins and the upstream for other projects, and I would
> like to see some soak time for this before everyone needs to switch.

If previous experience shows us anything this will probably work this way:

- F14 will ship will systemd, there will be lots of problems with it
and everyone will be annoyed
- F15 will be slightly better, but people still having problems with
it are still annoyed
- F16 has most of it working again as in F13, but the stuff it does
better than SysV will be a lot better
- then TheOther distribution will start to use it and so everyone who
jumped ship at F14 will have to use it too
- ten years later the cycle starts again

By now I know that it is silly fighting it, there is no way to stop it.

Because I am used to the Red Hat before Fedora I would prefer a slower
pace and the possibility to use the same Linux skills on all
distributions. I also would like more technologies compete for the
SysV spot, but if competition is going to happen it has to come from
somewhere else outside of Fedora.

And if we are not happy with the changes, the only way to vote is with
our feet. For me systemd is not a good reason though, there have been
worse changes and I am still here.

Christof