The forkdebian site linked to lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg00001.html
and
apparently has generated enough rubbernecker curiousity/traffic to DDOS the lists.debian.org server
more blather (past 24hrs):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8477659lotta blather on a white background page:
http://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments ... ackernews/another white background page (just in case the other gets too full?)
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ ... rk_debian/===============================
Other than SteamOS, the only projects which likely have an
infrastructure capable of sustaining a fork are: tanglu, aptosid, and siduction.
So far, each of those projects seems to be willingly "going with the flow" regarding systemd.
If someone could convince Mattias at tanglu that avoiding systemd would be an outstanding differentiator for the distro, that would be swell.
(I suspect that no motivation short of throwing money at him would do the trick, though.)
If you're aware of any other project having a suitable debian-like infrastructure in place, please post it.
Arranging hosting and building out the infrastructure (build servers, repo servers, listserv servers, etc)
would be a year-long (minimum!) endeavor for a new player ~~ waiting (hoping)
for hair to grow on the chest of some new startup is really not a feasible alternative, in my book.