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LWN (Linux Weekly News) provides a written account of Benno Rice's talk. The former FreeBSD core developer gives some context around systemd and what FreeBSD should learn from it. He compares the affair to a Greek tragedy which contains much suffering followed by catharsis. His attitude toward systemd is generally not negative, but I won't cherry-pick any specific sections; you'll have to actually read the article for once.
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Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let's interview it!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday February 08 2019, @10:52AM
They only reason that I personally am opposed to systemd is that applications that have nothing to do with initialization are using systemd as a platform, rather than using existing platforms as as GTK or Qt.
Android has the very _same_ problem, in that Android Apps are written to the very same kind of Vendor Lock-In Platform as "The Java Platform".
It happens that I still own the very same first edition of what at the time was called "The Java Programming Language". It was after Bjarne pointed out the Java is not a programming language but a platform that I abandoned Java entirely. That same book is not called "The Java Platform"; there are Enterprise Editions of that book, books on The Java Platform's Performance - which contrary to you sorry lots assertions, doubtlessly is _quite_ good provided you're A Member Of The Borg Collective - with at first every mention of Java, its Platform or there ilk being at one time being liberally sprinkled with TMs or Rs or what have you, whether they were of Sun Microsystems or are now those of Oracle Corporation.
But I digress:
I'm quite good at writing technical articles [soggywizards.com]. I can't start until Saturday or so, but being at work were the Internet is speedy, I'll download the ISOs for both CentOS and Debian, then dig into systemd's source.
That technical article will _not_ be an opinion piece! Rather it will be a sober discussion of systemd's merits and deficits. Let me place A Link Into The Future:
It happens that I think the macOS' - lower case "m" - launchd is the very best thing since sliced bread; it's a a true joy for me both as a Mac - uppercase - developer and as a Mac User. So in my infinite free time, I'll do my very best to write a truly unbiased and non-puff comparison of launchd's good and bad features.
(ProTip: most of what most people find the very most annoying about macOS can be completely disabled by a command like "launchctl disable annoyingfeature'. For me personally, that's iTunes perpetually launching when I connect to my BT speakers, when I only ever use VLC. However I have yet to Lift A Finger to disable the relevant launch daemon.)
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