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posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 19 2014, @12:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-either-love-it-or-hate-it dept.

The good people over at Infoworld have published a story outlining why they feel systemd is a disaster.

Excerpt from Infoworld:

While systemd has succeeded in its original goals, it's not stopping there. systemd is becoming the Svchost of Linux—which I don't think most Linux folks want. You see, systemd is growing, like wildfire, well outside the bounds of enhancing the Linux boot experience. systemd wants to control most, if not all, of the fundamental functional aspects of a Linux system—from authentication to mounting shares to network configuration to syslog to cron. It wants to do so as essentially a monolithic entity that obscures what's happening behind the scenes.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by zafiro17 on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:24PM

    by zafiro17 (234) on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:24PM (#83053) Homepage

    Short answer: yes. Not sure what packages you installed, but I run several servers that are all mixes of LAMP and Postgresql, and not a single one of them installed even X.org, not to mention a desktop. You seem to have not learned enough about the OS before getting started.

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  • (Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Wednesday August 20 2014, @06:14PM

    by GeminiDomino (661) on Wednesday August 20 2014, @06:14PM (#83634)

    Actually, when I was a "junior sysadmin" back around the turn of the century, we had several FreeBSD servers (I think we were on 4-STABLE then). We had few enough then that "Make buildworld" on the heterogeneous servers was doable, and I always loved working with it.

    The set up I have to deal with, now, though, is almost an order of magnitude larger, and so having to compile everything for every update is a dealbreaker. I'm not sure how that's "not learning enough about the OS", unless that was just an unneeded swipe because you think, despite my explicitly disclaimer, that I was bashing it. I had to stop using it for logisitical reasons, and so asked those who might be more up-to-date on it whether an issue had been addressed.

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