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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @09:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @09:57AM (#83461)

    For many programming is fun and easy to get into and people want to do it.

    However, programming alone is nothing - it needs to be applied to something, and this something usually requires other skills such as creativity, analytic ability perhaps maths, physics or other branches of science.

    Also in the field of computing, much of the easy stuff is done. All the basic algorithms are all known and understood (sorting, datastructures etc...) and most fundamental software exists to a high quality and being readily available (OSes, editors, compilers, programming languages, utilities).

    So, as a programmer we have a few options left:

    1) Work on something new, difficult or very specific.
    2) 'Re-invent' something that already exists.

    Choice 1 may require some very specific skills, perseverance, hard work, funding and may not ever achieve much recognition outside some small niche.

    Choice 2, is sadly the easier path for many. So what we see is a constant re-arranging of pixels and processes for very little benefit, and normally at the expense of maturity, stability and complexity.

    It's not just Linux which is bad at this either. Microsoft shafted the UI for Win8, Google shafted Maps, Slashdot made Beta etc...

    The sad thing for Linux is that with these re-inventions, a significant portion of the documentation and community created HOWTOs, guides and forum postings are made irrelevant, along with portions of the userbase's knowledge, and it often takes a long time for this to be rebuilt.