Well most of the bigger base distros have moved over, I suspect their derivatives will follow.
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Install it if you have a reason. It's a lot of work just to say you did it, but if nothing else fits your purpose then you can't beat a source-based distro.
Some distros have made choices, but the point I'm trying to make is that the list everyone seems to be using is incorrectly claiming adoption in at least one case. If some distro looks at that list without checking its validity, and if users do the same, then that's not really a good thing.
A binary distro making a choice is OK. Some of the binary distros I've used let you choose a different init system, but historically speaking a distro generally has a focus (desktops, servers, appliances, whatever) and they choose their packages based on what works best for their application. That's perfectly fine. But if they make their decision based on false input, surely you can see how that would be bad?
A source-based distro, I can't see any good reason to specify any single init system. Or anything else for that matter.
Well... I guess we can add Ubuntu to the list:
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316
Rather inevitable.
These kind of decisions are big dreals for developers and distro packagers. But, for users, the gains and losses, if any, only show up as new capabilities that might be exposed as a result. Otherwise, it's plumbing buried in the walls.
(Caveat: If you know enough about you init system to leverage or otherwise mess around with it, I'd say you've left the ranks of mainstream userdom and become a tinkerer. That distinction is relevant because folks like Canonical, et al, are making software for users, not tinkerers.)
If anyone is interested in learning a little bit about systemd have a watch of this:
http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/l..._Donaldson.mp4
It's called 'The Six Stages of SystemD'!
Would love to hear what ian-weiser has to say now :biggrin:
Just to throw another spanner into the works I somehow suspect a similar outcome wrt to MIR vs Wayland. they will punt it but at the end of the day when everyone but Ubuntu (excluding kubuntu, xubuntu, lubuntu) uses wayland it becomes pretty lonely out there and the logistics of swimming against the stream becomes to much they will switch.
I hate the fact that it happened, but we should only blame Debian.