[arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

[Leon Feng]

2012/8/17 mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net> wrote:
>> There has been much ado on the arch-general mailing list about the move to
>> systemd. I participated in part of it, but like others finally tired of
>> "seeing a dead horse kicked" over and over and over. So much so that the
>> last dev who really paid attention to the list said goodbye. Yet the free
>> for all continues. I think a comment on Allan's blog post might illustrate
>
> Here are some stats that are quite useful in terms of the number of
> users of systemd:
>
> At http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/static/stats/stats.html
>
> Using the "kernel" tab we see that the approximate number of systems
> that have their system details logged using Fedora 16 is over 100,000
> if you total the entries for x86_64 and the i686 and i686 PAE kernels
> most of which are systems using systemd.  Given that so many machines
> are currently running systemd it can't be all that bad! This is of
> course only for Fedora but machines are also running systemd in other
> distributions as well.
>
> Speaks volumes really - and again supports the decision that the devs
> have made - with a much larger user base than the straw poll made
> available by another poster on this mailing list.

Maybe there are some misunderstanding to be clear:

Even if Arch support systemd as default, it does not means all Arch
users are force to use systemd. Users prefer current initscripts can
still use it. It is just like the choice between Grub/Grub2/syslinux.

Leon.

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