Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

[Bill Oliver]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, Joe Zeff wrote:

> On 07/12/2014 11:43 AM, Bill Oliver wrote:
>>  I really am starting to see this as an example of the Microsoft-ish
>>  philosophy of "tell the users where they must go and let them catch up
>>  as they can."   It works when the users don't have any other choice. But
>>  then, I guess Gentoo is the only distro left that hasn't adopted
>>  systemd, or will be doing so shortly.  I seriously considered switching
>>  to Debian, but no joy.
>
> If you're really that unhappy about such things as systemd, there's nothing 
> to stop you from rolling your own distro.  Start with Linux from Scratch (The 
> Wikipedia article still shows it using Sysvinit.) put in what you think an 
> "old-school" linux should have and call it Steampunk Linux to grab a bit of 
> glamour and avoid looking like you're just unwilling to accept progress. 
> (Not that I'm accusing you of that; from what I can see, you just don't 
> consider systemd to *be* progress.)  Who knows?  It might even be popular.
>


Heh.  The reminds me of the head of TSA, I think it was,  saying that if people didn't like having their genitals fondled, then they were free to walk from New York to San Francisco -- the didn't *have* to fly.

Yeah, I know.  Thanks for that useful suggestion.

billo