Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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.

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
systemd: Harbinger of the Linux Apocalypse. | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 98 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by cykros on Tuesday August 19 2014, @07:35PM

    by cykros (989) on Tuesday August 19 2014, @07:35PM (#83214)

    Debian may let you down, but there's always that distro that's even older than Debian kicking around, and I really don't see Patrick Volkerding giving us a Slackware that uses systemd. We're still using lilo, ALSA, and sysvinit here in the slack world...though you don't hear about us as much, because our documentation and organized, accessible system really minimizes the need for massive forums over every little thing someone might want to do with the "user friendly" "easy" modern systems that have been fed to the masses.

    And, failing that, there's always the BSD world. With Linux distros racing to abandon the Unix philosophy, people who like the Unix way are being left with little choice other than to return to Unix. I'll be sticking with Slack personally, but definitely am a bit less hopeful about the future of Linux than I was 10 years ago with all of these recent trends.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +3  
       Informative=3, Total=3
    Extra 'Informative' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   5