[arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

Paul Dann pdgiddie at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 11:50:17 EDT 2012


Yes, but it strives to hide those sorts of transitions from the user. I believe the issue in question is the pain of change.

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Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl> wrote:

On 08/14/12 15:51, Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 Aug 2012 14:59:43 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:45 +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
>>> and easier for most users to maintain
>>
>> USERS? I'm a stupid user. I guess you're talking about experts. For
>> "USERS" it's hard to follow changes every half year. We stupid users
>> simply want to use the computer. We are willing to learn, but we won't
>> start from the beginning, every half year.
> 
> Cool, so once you're set up with systemd, you should find it easier to work 
> with. As for change, I'm afraid that's inevitable in ArchLinux, because it's 
> intended to be a cutting-edge distro. If you don't like the change, you 
> really need to consider switching to something less hands-on. I hear that 
> OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is a viable rolling-release option. And I think Mint 
> Debian Edition is also rolling-release?
> 
> Paul
> 
SuSe has systemd plans too ;)

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Jelle van der Waa



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