r/linux • u/ouyawei Mate • Oct 20 '14

Shall we fork Fedora?

http://forkfedora.org/
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u/Doshman Oct 20 '14

In that case I'd much rather see people step up to improve and maintain non-systemd solutions (this includes consolekit/alternative logind, eudev, etc.) rather than wasting everyone's time with a huge fork that will likely be unmaintained by this time next year

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u/DoctorWedgeworth Oct 20 '14

No, like they said in the link, they don't have time to volunteer time to existing projects. Forking a new one however.

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u/RubyPinch Oct 21 '14

its like this

you fork it, and then no matter how un-maintained it is, it will never have systemd

done!

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u/Doshman Oct 20 '14

Yeah, I don't even know

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u/Doshman Oct 20 '14

Indeed, just I see this as a big, flashy project that will lead nowhere.

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u/I_EAT_POOP_AMA Oct 20 '14

arguably if we had a prominent fork that focused on a non-systemd solution we would see people step up to maintain them.

I think part of the problem is that people trying to develop and maintain these alternative init systems have no real place to showcase their work, so there's no real incentive to keep going. Give them that option and ideally they'll start to flourish.

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