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posted by n1 on Sunday September 28 2014, @06:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the yet-another-systemd-story dept.

Controversy is nothing new when it comes to systemd. Many people find this new Linux init system to be inherently flawed in most ways, yet it is still gaining traction with major distros like Arch Linux, openSUSE, Fedora, and soon both Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux. The adoption of systemd for Debian 8 "Jessie" has been particularly fraught with strife and animosity.

Some have described the systemd adoption process as having been a "coup", while others are vowing to stick with Debian 7 as long as possible before moving to another distro. Others are so upset by what they see as a complete betrayal of the Debian and open source communities that there is serious discussion about forking Debian. Regardless of one's stance toward systemd, it cannot be argued that it has become one of the most divisive and disruptive changes in the long history of the Debian project, threatening to destroy both the project and the community that has built up around it.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Whoever on Sunday September 28 2014, @06:47PM

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday September 28 2014, @06:47PM (#99286) Journal

    systemd is supposed to be a replacement for syslog, ntpd, dhclient, etc.. All these individual programs have their own maintainters and yet there are almost certainly bugs.

    He reliable and bug-free can systemd possibly be when replacing all these other daemons? One small team to produce functionality that has been supported by people with years of experience of that particular problem. I expect that systemd will be full of bugs.

    The next problem is the demonstrated attitude of the systemd maintainers to bugs.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 28 2014, @08:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 28 2014, @08:56PM (#99341)

    The NSA, Spooks, Criminals are gonna love these "bugs".
    NSA is behind this mess.