Am 21.11.2014 um 18:36 schrieb Philip Webb:
Adoption of Systemd by other major distros sb good for Gentoo. Disgruntled Debians, Fedoras, Archies (IIRC they've also adopted it) will have a choice of giving in or moving to Slackware or Gentoo.
Well, Gentoo is for sure quite a different beast compared to Fedora, Debian or Ubuntu.
I don't think so, that many people are going to switch to Gentoo just because of Systemd, because of the differences between Gentoo and e.g. Debian.
All other major distros are: binary distributed (timesaver!), have a steady release cycle (contrary to Gentoo's rolling upgrade) and each version has a documented feature set.
Especially in server environments many people don't want to compile their stuff on production environment and have a rolling upgrade distribution. And especially in server environments there seems to be the biggest resistance against systemd.
So naturally they would look for something that has a steady release cycle and is binary distributed, without systemd.
E.g. Slackware or FreeBSD does fit that niche.
