On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why > at install time, is there no choice for the init system? You get what > the developers decide. Yes, you can install a new one -- I've done it > and it works -- but only after the install. It'd be a lot easier, if > there were a choice to begin with just like whether you want a GUI and > which one. > > Now, I know with LFS, you get to choose everything, etc. But is a > choice of init at install time so outrageous that no one ever > considered it or is it technically unfeasible or something else. > > Just curious.
Some interesting links: http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4hutww/is_linux_about_choice/ http://pusling.com/blog/?p=366 https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/09/23/linux-is-about-choice/ OK, sure, they're the first 4 hits in a google search but they *are* interesting. :) -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X
