Passion around systemd and its default use in Debian

A group of "long-standing Unix admins" opened the site debianfork.org . They encourage the community to consider an alternative to the Debian fork, because this distribution is about to switch to the systemd daemon.

Systemd is the daemon to initialize other daemons on Linux, which is used instead of the SystemV Init (sysvinit). Its feature is the intensive parallelization of the launch of services during the boot process, which can significantly accelerate the start of the operating system. Probably soon they will start using it by default in Debian.

This is the next step in a long discussion about systemd. Some say it violates the Unix philosophy. More than a month ago (the same?) A group of activists launched the BoycottSystemd.org projectcalling for a boycott of systemd and the Linux distributions that use this daemon.

In order to prevent a fork, activists urge all sympathizers to vote for Ian Jackson's proposal on the freedom of choice of the initialization system in Debian .

In the four years since its introduction, systemd has been causing conflicting feelings among Linux developers and users. In specialized forums, this is one of the most discussed topics .

Some people don't like the fact that systemd included udev code and therefore made it difficult to use this device manager separately from systemd. Another disdains the desire of the main developer of systemd Lennart Pottering to constantly expand the functionality of systemd. Not everyone shares his radical ideas for modernizing the core.

Critics believe that the systemd daemon takes on unreasonably many functions and turns into the main threat to the stability of the system. They call systemd "anti-Unix" and call for a boycott of the distributions in which it is used. As one of the options, they offer switching to an OS with “more traditional Unix paradigms”, migrating to BSD, and creating projects that can be an alternative to systemd.