| Devuan is in rank 32 on distrowatch. What distros haven't moved to systemd at this point? I would appreciate a list so I never use them thanks. How badass is Lennart Poettering? Dude just says alright I'm going to improve upon the craptacular init system. He follows through and the whole world starts using his software. That dude is a legend and he's only 41. Devuan forked in 2015 and is basically a non-existent distro after 7 years. Systemd was never controversial as portrayed in this blog. So what exactly is the delusion of Debian? >But that's not all. The fact of the matter is that Debian has long been experiencing a decline in the amount of people willing to participate in the project. There was another recent debian post on HN. No idea why Debian suddenly is so popular of a subject. People responded to me like as if Debian was doing fantastic.I just don't know how anyone can think Debian isn't in death spiral. >Carter believes they need two to three times their current volunteer levels to accomplish all of their goals. He also feels Debian is too lacking in the area of diversity and not catching up fast enough. He blames Debian's diversity on large regions of the world not being represented enough, failing to put together a timely message regarding Black Lives Matter, and other concerns/ideas. https://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=2020&image=debian_prob... Debian leadership thinks they don't have a strong position on black lives matter? That's why people are leaving the project? So what have they done? They have built a diversity and inclusion plan. They even enforce a anti-harassment team. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Community?action=show&redirect... I encourage everyone to read that antiharassment page in depth. As Debian leadership clearly indicated. They need significantly more people to contribute to the project, but they have an exodus/decline of developers. Clearly they are not doing enough with their antiharassment team. People are harassing others at debian to such a huge degree the remaining volunteers are taking on ~3x the workload they should. Eventually they will quit as well. I think what debian needs to urgently do... is figure out exactly who the harassers are. I very clearly can see exactly who is doing the harassment. If Debian makes a mistake and does not directly address this correctly. Debian is dead. Which is so sad to me. |
The one that has the biggest impact on my life is Alpine, because I run postmarketOS on my phone which is an Alpine derivative. It has OpenRC instead, which doesn't have the ability to auto-restart crashed services (it doesn't do any action when a service crashes, by design), doesn't do socket activation, and doesn't support running as a user instance for a user session.