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systemd: Harbinger of the Linux Apocalypse.

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

Subsentient writes:

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: 2, Informative) by bucket58 on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:47PM

    by bucket58 (1305) on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:47PM (#83128)

    Be scared. The Debian systemd package maintainers and their friends are doing a fine job at extinguishing any means to run non-systemd init in Debian.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 20 2014, @08:44AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday August 20 2014, @08:44AM (#83444) Homepage
    "are doing"? "Have done", more like.

    I've been Debian-only for 14 years. My next install (one of my servers needs replacing soon, I'd like it to be replaced in a controlled fashion rather than a panic) will be something else, definitely something non-systemd. Perhaps Gentoo, but I've not liked their way of unrolling loops in the past. But to be honest, I might even leave the Linux fold and hit one of the BSDs.
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