Debian community splits over systemd, but fork still unlikely | Linux Today

Debian community splits over systemd, but fork still unlikely

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Jon Gold
Oct 23, 2014

The latest chapter in the ongoing furor over the software known as systemd threatens to split the Debian community, after a splinter group stated that it would create a fork of the well-known Linux distribution if systemd is included in an upcoming release.

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Jon Gold

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