Options for Salix if Slackware is forced to switch init
Posted: 29. Aug 2015, 21:08
Hello Everyone,
I was curious how the community felt regarding the possible future changes to our init. Now, to be clear, there is absolutely no mention of any change from PV or the Slackware team. Alien Bob (Eric) has come out completely against it, PV stated that he does not see the point in systemd, however, conceded that if all the major distros switch to it and it becomes a fixed dependency then Slackware might not have a choice (he may have said that in jest because like pam, gnome etc..., Slackware does not always follow the other distros). He also mentioned possibly switching to the BSD userland, while keeping the Linux kernel.....
If Slackware were to switch to systemd, no matter how unlikely, should Salix do the same, or should we offer the option of systemd, or openRC, similar to the option Gentoo offers.
If Slackware sticks with BSD style init, should Salix continue with SysV or have an option for openRC? Do any of you have a need for openRC, or anything beyond SysV or BSD init?
Ref:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC
old forum discussion between the SysV and openRC
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... yle-55858/
old discussion about systemd
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... md-885228/
I was curious how the community felt regarding the possible future changes to our init. Now, to be clear, there is absolutely no mention of any change from PV or the Slackware team. Alien Bob (Eric) has come out completely against it, PV stated that he does not see the point in systemd, however, conceded that if all the major distros switch to it and it becomes a fixed dependency then Slackware might not have a choice (he may have said that in jest because like pam, gnome etc..., Slackware does not always follow the other distros). He also mentioned possibly switching to the BSD userland, while keeping the Linux kernel.....
If Slackware were to switch to systemd, no matter how unlikely, should Salix do the same, or should we offer the option of systemd, or openRC, similar to the option Gentoo offers.
If Slackware sticks with BSD style init, should Salix continue with SysV or have an option for openRC? Do any of you have a need for openRC, or anything beyond SysV or BSD init?
Ref:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC
old forum discussion between the SysV and openRC
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... yle-55858/
old discussion about systemd
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... md-885228/