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Surge in Systemd forks after the latest changes (github.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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The latest changes implemented in the Systemd repo, related to or prompted by age-verification laws, have made many people unhappy (I suppose links about this aren't necessary). This has led to a surge in Systemd forks during the last days ("surge" because there have always been plenty of forks). Here are some forks that explicitly mention those changes as their reason for forking (rough time ordering taken from the fork page):

Hopefully the energy of this reaction won't be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.

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[+] -9 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Womp Womp.

What did they expect would happen?

I can only hope this ends up with the original simply being left to rot.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Did you read the freaking merge https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Nope. No one did. It's all drama farming and ignorant apoplectic panic. I'd absolutely be interested to know more about the person behind the merge request. Apparently they have submitted similar code to several other projects for the same purpose. But it's just fashionable to hate on systemD right now. At least the sysV vs systemD guys have valid issues. Even though as a 30-year Linux user, I wouldn't go back to sysV inits. I do not miss having to use poorly documented or outright undocumented tricks, tips, and arcana to write basic process watchdogs and initialization scripts.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    It's hard enough for maintainers and devs to fight ai and governments. If you wanna go against someone go against corpos and government not people doing their hobbies.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Yes, time and effort would be infinitely better spent yelling at the local and national governments pushing for this to be implemented at the behest of meta. Than outrage of an optional text field.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    When has Foss been sued by governments? I can think of only a few examples, when the software was used to mix crypto.

    I don't see age verification being used to shut down Debian. They would just move to another country

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    We should have them add ss# too, since it’s non-privileged. What could go wrong?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That's not a thing in like every single country. Might as well add a "Name of the Chinese primary school you graduated from" field, at least that would have more users.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago

    Whatever you wanna call it. Let’s add that. Gender, gender between your legs, marriage status, race is also super important.

    It’s just a field… so why not?

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