sysvinit VS initng VS upstart VS launchd (Was: Future New Init for FC7?)

Trond Danielsen trond.danielsen at fedoraproject.org
Thu Apr 5 15:30:05 UTC 2007


2007/4/5, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr>:
> I think this is a very wrong direction for fedora. Free software is
> about choice. And also being able to test innovative technologies.

Free software is indeed about choices, but creating a distribution is
also about making choices. If the distribution does not make them, but
leave them to the user, then a distribution is nothing more than
collection of packages bundled together.

> The default init system should be privileged, but all should be present,
> such that power users are able to test and use them. The directions that
> developers and packagers want to follow, how they spend their time is
> their business. If there are enough people interested in new init
> systems, lets have them. As a project we have to watch out the packaging
> quality, the integration in the distro and have good defaults. Our
> mandate should not to be in the way of initiatives.

Power users are indeed welcome to test new things. That does not mean
that everything has to be in the main repositories and thereby risking
breaking things for many users.

I remember asking many years on #fedora why some cheezy window manager
that I wanted to try wasn't available in Fedora. My question was
exactly the same as yours: "Isn't free software about choices?". The
answer I got was the same as the one I've given here. This lead me
into a dark journey through many distributions, looking for the
answer. But eventually I grew up, and wanted a distribution that made
some sane decisions for me, and not forcing me to deal with every
little detail of the system.

-- 
Trond Danielsen




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