[ale] Debian fork thoughts?

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

Brief disclaimer beforehand... I'm a Debian Developer and have been 
part of the project since 2001.

Now, that said, I'm not giving this "fork" any of my time based solely 
on the behavior of the anti-systemd individuals that have, and still, 
caused disruptions on the mailing lists, irc chat rooms and an other 
medium they could. They have tried repeated to work against the 
established methods to do things and when they couldn't pigeon-hole and 
force the results they wanted caused even more problems. Finally they 
have decided to fork the project which as someone else already pointed 
out is going to be a derivative that is almost 99% original to upstream 
just simply stripping out the entire systemd system which already can be 
removed and use SysV init with a shim for systemd that allows those 
aspects that have hard-coded dependencies on systemd (namely GNOME comes 
to mind as the biggest reason requiring systemd).

If they could have found a better way to argue their point I might give 
what they have to say some bearing but they have been unable to do so 
and I highly doubt they ever will. I expect this forked derivative to be 
very volatile and as an IT professional wouldn't use it for anything 
more than a throw away virtual machine if I did look at it.

On 01.12.2014 12:23, leam hall wrote:
> You've probably seen the news that Debian has forked. I'm interested
> in a much smaller OS that works. Would love to hear your perspectives
> on this. It seems like a Good Thing (tm).
>
> Leam