Regarding the controversy about systemd etc. The problem isn't that systemd is available, or that there exist a company named Red Had or that there exist a developer named Lennart Poettering that develops programs.
The problem is that an ever increasing amount of programs list systemd or some of its libs as a depenancy. So it is getting harder and harder to opt out. The situation is similar to the one with udev and variants. Some programs list udev as a requirement even though there is no requirment on technical grounds. I.e. X, I can run X perfectly without udev, I just have to make my own xorg.conf, or I might want to run X with udev since then it handles multiple keyboards with different layouts automatically. It's like when buying a car, some prefer automats, some stick shift. There are pro and cons for both cases. Sometimes its useful and sometimes its not needed, why should I be more or less forced to use it in every case ? No one is expecting me to run a webserver on every systems, why then the heated arguments about this ? It should be my own decision what to install, not someone elses. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57
