That's not how I remember it. Fedora was pushed to adoption (thread starter characterises it as an internal "power play"), and Debian was presented a fait accompli (article summarises Russ Allbery with "[not] systemd-vs-the-alternatives, but how-much-of-systemd").
> And I never heard an end user complain.
This is ridiculous! I can also claim the world is always dark when I shut my eyes.
Linux mailing lists are full with complaints. A recurring one was an error message that suggests running a command as remedy, only for that command to also error out. (The remedy was formulated wrong.) By then, systemd already had a version number in the hundreds.
That's not how I remember it. Fedora was pushed to adoption (thread starter characterises it as an internal "power play"), and Debian was presented a fait accompli (article summarises Russ Allbery with "[not] systemd-vs-the-alternatives, but how-much-of-systemd").
> And I never heard an end user complain.
This is ridiculous! I can also claim the world is always dark when I shut my eyes.
Linux mailing lists are full with complaints. A recurring one was an error message that suggests running a command as remedy, only for that command to also error out. (The remedy was formulated wrong.) By then, systemd already had a version number in the hundreds.