[$] Enabling the persistent journal in Debian
It seems unlikely that anyone on any "side" of the systemd war that has
raged in Debian over the last few years thought that the results of the recent general resolution (GR)
vote ended the matter. The vote showed a clear preference for moving ahead
with systemd as the preferred init system, though it was far from any kind
of landslide—there were definitely plenty of voters who would have preferred a
different outcome. It was a complicated
GR, with a wide spectrum of options, but at this point, the project
as a whole has spoken. Actually implementing some of the changes that the
GR enabled may not have the smooth path that some might have hoped for, however.