[arch-general] OT: "Major distributions" (WAS: Re: [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd)

[Nicholas MIller]

On Aug 14, 2012 6:52 PM, "Leon Feng" <rainofchaos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2012/8/15 Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>:
> > Am 14.08.2012 18:19, schrieb Brandon Watkins:
> >> Systemd isn't going anywhere anytime soon, its going to be adopted by
RHEL
> >> (which means it would also be adopted by RHEL derivatives like
CentOS), and
> >> its being adopted by major distros like fedora, opensuse, mageia etc...
> >
> > What are those "major distributions"?
> >
> > 1) Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and derivatives
> > 2) Fedora and derivatives
> > 3) openSuSE
> > 4) Arch
> > 5) Mandriva / Mageia
> > 6) Slackware
> > 7) Gentoo
> >
> > That's about it. As you see, I included Arch up there. As far as I can
> > see, after Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora and openSuSE (in no particular
> > order), Arch has been number 6 on the list of "major Linux
> > distributions" (excluding professional stuff like SLES or RHEL) for
> > several years.
> >
> > What I am trying to say is: It no longer suffices to say "we follow the
> > major distributions" when making a decision, as Arch itself is a major
> > distribution now.
> >
> > Still, your point stands: Redhat will be funding systemd development for
> > quite a while.
> >
> >
>
> As a rolling release, Arch is usually the leader of adopt new technology.
> But now, Arch is falling behind Debian now. So sad.
>
> Chao

I admit I miss some news but last i read debian was NOT moving to systemd
because it only supports Linux...

So how are we falling behind them?