should GeckoLinux offer an alternative to systemd?

[EugeneJarecki]

Hi folks.

Distrowatch Weekly readers are currently nattering on about systemd. After almost 11 years it still generates controversy and heated arguments. I wonder if there's an opportunity for GeckoLinux to add value vis-a-vis openSuse by offering one of the init alternatives to systemD: OpenRC, SysVinit, or any of the others I'm forgetting.

PCLinuxOS demonstrates that an RPM-based distro can function without systemd, so I hope what I propose is technically feasible. What can't be denied is that there is a supply and demand mismatch in the Linux world, i.e. the demand for non-systemd distros far outstrips the meager supply. Gecko could help fill the void.

[geckolinux]

Hi there, thanks for the idea, but the answer is absolutely no.

GeckoLinux is not a fork of openSUSE, but rather an alternative installation and configuration method that results in a highly customized openSUSE distribution being installed on the disk. GeckoLinux does not and will not create or modify packages, since that would create an unhealthy dependency on the only developer (me). As per its design, GeckoLinux users don't depend on me to keep their installed systems running and up-to-date, because all of its customizations are possible within the limits of the upstream openSUSE (and Packman) package repositories it depends on. So to that end, it will always use the same core system components that openSUSE uses.

[EugeneJarecki]

Fair enough! ;^)