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Phoronix has an article up about some interesting ideas of Lennart Poettering about what could be a possible future for Linux:
Lennart Poettering of systemd and PulseAudio fame has published a lengthy blog post that shares his vision for how he wishes to change how Linux software systems are put together to address a wide variety of issues. The Btrfs file-system and systemd play big roles with his new vision. Long story short, Lennart is trying to tackle how Linux distributions and software systems themselves are assembled to improve security, deal with the challenges of upstream software vendors integrating into many different distributions, and "the classic Linux distribution scheme is frequently not what end users want."
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(Score: 2) by subs on Tuesday September 02 2014, @10:27AM
I'd really appreciate if somebody could please explain to me all the transgressions of systemd upon the poor sysadmin. I come from a Solaris background and while initially I hated SMF, I've come to appreciate its finer points over init scripts. Yeah the syntax is whacky and I would have massively appreciated had they gone with something like OpenStep property lists instead of XML, but it is declarative and relatively straightforward in terms of usage. At times I curse at it, but usually not because of something SMF has messed up, but something somebody else did when using it.
That having been said, I haven't used systemd, so I don't know if I'm missing something. The declarative service configuration syntax, the service tracking and restarting and stuff like that all seem to me to be fine features, stuff any modern Unix-like system should do. But then I hear that systemd is trying to do device & removable storage management and some permissions stuff and I don't know what else - WTF? I thought it was supposed to just be a replacement for init and provide service tracking.