Re: systemd (Subject line fixed as a public service)

On 2025-01-16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:17:50 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:
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Rather that vendors can (an will) break compatibility when they want.

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But they cannot lock Open Source users into their product.
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And actually systemd is an example of thing that users are essentially
forced to use regardless if they want it or not ...

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It is one of many choices of init/service-management systems. You have
your choice of distros with or without it.

Certainly for headless (no graphics) purposes, it is still comparatively
easy in Debian to replace systemd with the old sysv-init(or alternative
init) stuff. Though I'm not sure for how long that will be true. But you don't even need to switches distros.

I did it recently on a Raspberry Pi with their latest "lite" version of
PiOS (Debian based). I was pleasantly surprized at how easy it was.