Let's talk about this 'free software' that you praise. Here are some facts. These are the packages that are part of systemd and therefore BANNED from a non-systemd environment:Wheelerof4te wrote:Don't preach "freedom" here, cause systemd is free and has been free software since the start.golinux wrote:I'd like to add . . . to remain free is the challenge because freedom is easily lost and its absence only recognized when it is too late. Remain vigilant and understand that comfort and complacency will accelerate freedom's demise.
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/bannedpackages.txt
These packages need attention to remove hard dependencies on systemd. In Devuan we clean up the mess as necessary and provide sanitized packages.:
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/oldpackages.txt
And these packages depend on libsystemd. While that connection is currently rather benign, there is a good chance that could change in the future. We are watching this closely.
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/libsystemd.txt
Note that with each release the ties and lockins increase. This is not 'free' software, it is 'conditional' software and that's why so many of us have our knickers in a twist.
Just a corporate wolf in sheep's clothing. Time to wake up and smell the bottom line. 'Mainstreaming' Linux will eventually destroy it. That's the point. Users lose. Red Hat profits.It is used and improved by the largest free software and Linux kernel contributor to date, Red Hat. Without Red Hat, we would not have mainstream Linux right now. Especially in the server arena.
No it's not. I'll stop when systemd returns to being ONLY an init system and stops making non-init-related software dependent on anything systemd.And then someone comes in and dares to mock people who have been working very hard for so long to bring Linux to so many users.
It's shameful.