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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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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 09 2019, @07:47AM
That statement is entirely correct - because we are not here to discuss ephemeral pop stars. But it does not apply to the story in question, which is very clearly on a topic that interests many on this site. It has generated other comments here that have been informative and of interest to many of our community.
You might have realised from the title "Systemd as Tragedy" that the story was about something that does not appear to interest you. You could have stopped reading at that point. However, it would have become apparent that the story was not one from which you would gain any personal enjoyment long before you finished reading the entire article. Perhaps you should have stopped reading at the point that you first thought that 'it is puff', That would have saved a few minutes - which apparently is a significant and valuable part of your life. I'm sorry that you know your lifespan is going to be so terribly short and you have my sympathy. There must have been several stories since the site began that were not of interest to you.
I suspect that you fall into the camp of those that dislike systemd. I have no problem with that. But you have lost several more valuable minutes of your life by commenting not on the subject under discussion but on the choice made by an editor to publish this story. I am genuinely sorry that you felt more strongly about the standard of editing than the subject under discussion.