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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @04:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @04:41PM (#83158)

    What are they doing that they have to reboot so much

    I believe they're aiming at tablets and the like, which for some reason they think boot rather than sleep regularly.

    And, again, "boot time" is not the metric that should be used here. PALM solved this issue in 1996 (note, 18 years ago now). How? The "on/off" button on a PALM didn't actually "shutdown" a PALM (not in the context of Linux "shutdown -h" type of shutdown). It just powered down everything except the RAM, which was kept on trickle so its contents remained unchanged.

    Then an "on" button press resulted in "instant-on". In fact it was even better than that. You could be half way through entering something in an entry field, hit the "off" button, walk around all day, take it back out of your pocket, hit the "on" (same button) button, and it would instantly power back up, right exactly where you left off entering in the entry field.

    This is what tablets should aspire to. A "sleep mode" that is so fast to enter, and so fast to leave, that it appears to be "instant-on" to any user. A "reboot" should never be necessary.

    FWIW, Palm Pilots had a reboot button. It was inside a ballpoint pen sized hole hidden on the rear of the device. It would initiate a cold reboot (and the device would take some seconds to actually go through the boot process). It was almost never, ever, needed. The only time it was needed was usually the result of installing some not-quite-debugged app. that crashed something (no memory protection in a palm) by misbehaving.