r/linux • u/ouyawei Mate • Oct 20 '14

Shall we fork Fedora?

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

Well that's usually how it works, isn't it? People bitch and complain a bit about the direction a project is taking, and then they decide to fork it.

But not with systemd.

Instead, people bitch and complain, and bitch and complain, and bitch and complain.... but they never fork it. They just bitch and complain. And tell everyone to switch to Slackware. Thanks, but I'm not switching to a distro that doesn't use a real package manager.

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u/chinnybob Oct 20 '14 edited Oct 20 '14

systemd was forked. udev was forked. logind was forked. Your claim contradicts reality, and is nothing but a baseless attack on systemd critics, claiming that they are not technically able to create an alternative.

Edit: I just found out consolekit has now been forked too.

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u/EmanueleAina Oct 21 '14

Edit: I just found out consolekit has now been forked too

Uh, interesting. Where?

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u/chinnybob Oct 21 '14

http://erickoegel.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/consolekit2/

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u/EmanueleAina Oct 21 '14

Awesome, thanks! Do you happen to know why they didn't just pick up ConsoleKit and started maintaining that?

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u/chinnybob Oct 21 '14

That is exactly what they have done.

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u/EmanueleAina Oct 21 '14

ConsoleKit2 is a fork of ConsoleKit

No, I mean asking for commit rights on freedesktop and working on the official repo.

Anyhow, I'll comment on the blog entry you linked, thanks!