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Re:Boycott systemd by vertex-four on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:29AM (#7640878)
> Isn't this exactly what made the Linux Kernel great? A consistent vision.

Sure, but even today, the Linux kernel has competition. I can run most things on Windows or OSX or FreeBSD or Solaris, even if the technical details are different. I worry about a monoculture forming around systemd, as seems to be happening now; I can't find a modern distro that uses anything else (aside from Gentoo, which I can't take seriously for production work), and it's starting to be assumed that systemd is the only init system that anybody will use.

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Re:Boycott systemd by pavanky on Thursday April 24, 2014 @02:19PM (#7641936)
> it's starting to be assumed that systemd is the only init system that anybody will use.

You can still use Windows, OSX or FreeBSD.

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Re:Boycott systemd by vertex-four on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:28PM (#7649449)
Yes, I can, but I used to have choice within the Linux ecosystem. Now I do not. Having choice taken away is not a good thing.
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