Debian Project's proposals this wknd re: init systems

[aaronco36]

FYI, the Debian Project came out this weekend with its 'General 
Resolution: Init Systems and systemd' (see reference [1]).


While it may *currently* be "trivially straightforward" for many/most 
Debian users to replace systemd init and its dependencies using the 
helpful hints Rick M described in 'Debian 8 "Jessie" OpenRC Conversion' 
([2]), the same may *not* be necessarily true going forward should the 
Debian Project adopt "Proposal C Choice 3: Focus on systemd for Init 
System and Other Facilities"
Non-systemd purists might then reconsider one or more of the non-systemd, 
Debian-based Linux distros listed in reference [3], namely MX Linux, 
antiX, Devuan GNU+Linux, ...etcetera.

OTOH, I can easily imagine someone such as Benno Rice more actively 
reaching out to *non*-systemd advocates among Debian Project 
members/voters (as Benno did as described and presented in references [4] 
thru [6] directed to the FreeBSD community) to convince the latter to 
ultimately reject from within [1] the 'Proposal A Choice 1: Affirm Init 
Diversity'.  Maybe even using a spoken and deceptive ruse such as 
"GNU/Linux Friends, Sysadmins and Developers, I come to *bury* systemd 
init, not to praise it", alluding to Mark Antony's famous Funeral Speech 
in William Shakespeare's tragedy _Julius Caesar_ starting at ~1 minute 
into the YouTube video (see ref [7]) :-\

And perhaps within the ~1 week or more following tonight's possible BALUG 
mtg discussion-item "Democratization of The Internet" (see ref [8]), 
Debian Project mailing list debian-vote[rs] will even come to a decision 
on the three proposals through their Standard Resolution Procedure (see 
ref [9]) *without* the (un-)Democratic and undue "influence" of the 
decidedly pro systemd init developers(?)

-A


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References
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[1]https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002
[2]http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/openrc-conversion.html
[3]https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=Linux&category=All&origin=All&basedon=Debian&notbasedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&language=All&defaultinit=Not+systemd&status=Active#simple
[4]https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/
[5]https://youtu.be/o_AIw9bGogo
[6]https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/aot1ga/benno_rice_the_tragedy_of_systemd_linuxconfau_2019/
[7]https://youtu.be/7X9C55TkUP8
[8]https://www.debian.org/vote/howto_follow
[9]http://bad.debian.net/pipermail/bad/2019-November/003843.html
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