On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 19:58:13 -0400 James Ensor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I don't have a strong opinion about systemd one way or the other, but > even after all of the debate and discussion that has been going on, > it was still not clear to me if systemd is something that is required > to be run, or if it's just a default init system that can be changed. > > So I went ahead and installed sysvinit and purged systemd so see if > something bad (tm) would happen, but as far as I can tell my system is > running fine. The only two things that changed are (1) > network-manager has been removed, so I'm using wicd instead for > network management, and (2) suspend from xfce no longer works so I > installed acpi-support to enable suspend. But everything else seems > to be working just fine. System is Debian Jessie amd64, and I'm > using Xfce4. > > So I guess my question is what's all the hubbub? > > James Ensor James, Please, please, *please* write down a detailed article on exactly how you did this. I'll help you if you'd like --- I write for a living, a lot of it tech writing. If what you did works for everybody when Jessie goes stable, you've just singlehandedly ended this whole argument. If you want to collaborate on this article, I'll throw an extra hard disk in my experimental box to tech edit your instructions. This just might be good news. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
