I am a crunchbanger, and my sense is that the community was fine with systemd, that it intended to roll right on in to Jesse without asking any questions. The thinking was "Crunchbang is based on Debian, and so it will follow Debian's lead."

(It was a really great distro while it lasted)


On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 09:53:27AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=38916
>
>While I knew of its existence, I never tried Crunchbag, so I cannot
>comment on its features or user experience. Seems a shame that for
>whatever reason this Debian derivative is ceasing development. The
>article doesn't really cite specifics other than some things in the
>Linux landscape "...have changed beyond all recognition. It’s called
>progress, and for the most part, progress is a good thing. That said,
>when progress happens, some things get left behind, and for me,
>CrunchBang is something that I need to leave behind. I’m leaving it
>behind because I honestly believe that it no longer holds any value, and
>whilst I could hold on to it for sentimental reasons, I don’t believe
>that would be in the best interest of its users, who would benefit from
>using vanilla Debian."
>
>I can't help but think that the adoption of systemd for Jessie and
>beyond played some role here. At least that is my take-away and may be
>completely at odds with the real reason(s).
>
>- Nate
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