Re: Hi, I'm back (somehow)

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Am 27.05.26 um 10:38 schrieb Pierre Scotney ([email protected]
via blfs-dev Mailing List):
> On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 05:14:40AM +0200, Tim Tassonis wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Forgive my recent silence as an editor of LFS/BLFS, this was almost
>> exclusively down to professional matters (I got laid off by the company),
>> I'm still fully behind the idea, goals and general management of LFS/BLFS.
>>
>> However, as those of you knowing me probably assumed, I'm of course totally
>> and unequivocally against the recently made decision of dropping SYSV
>> support in LFS/BLFS.
>>
>> But as I was not of any help at the time of the decision, I naturally have
>> to accept it, I had the chance to object, but didn't take it, my bad.
>>
>> I have now decided to go on like this: I will maintain a separate fork of
>> LFS/BLFS at my home, for anybody that does not want to submit to systemd as
>> being the only way to run a self-created Linux system.
>>
>> Because I don't, and I never will. And if it's just because this bloated
>> piece of garbage was provably shoved down everybody's throat by a provably
>> lying and manipulative former employee of Red Had and now Microsoft, with
>> the very clearly stated goal of driving non-compliant UNIX's out of
>> business.
>>
>> I cannot be part of that, sorry, I'm too moral for this.
>>
>> But I still hope that my sysv fork and Xi Ruoyao's mainline can maintain a
>> friendly partnership. I just would like LFS to point to a choice outside of
>> Poetteringverse. It's much nicer there.
>>
>>
>> Bye
>> Tim
> 
> Hello Tim,
> 
> Welcome back.  I am sorry to hear about your professional situation, I 
> hope things have/are working out for you regarding employment.
> 
> I too was disappointed by the decision to drop SysV init due to GNOME 
> and KDE requiring SystemD.  Personally, I don't use either desktop 

AFAIK, KDE's Plasma doesn't yet require systemd.  The argument was that
it may so in the future.

Rainer


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