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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: 2) by cafebabe on Sunday September 28 2014, @07:02PM

    by cafebabe (894) on Sunday September 28 2014, @07:02PM (#99295) Journal

    250k lines-of-code

    That code is likely to have more than one bug per 1,000 lines. A proportion of those bugs may be security flaws. Unlike init, systemd is network exposed. So, some of those bugs may allow remote attacks.

    Old code has less bugs per line because the bugs have been found in audits and through deployment. Unfortunately, the number of bugs may never be zero. As we've seen with a security flaw in bash being network exposed via various daemons, some bugs may survive for decades and may be deployed on hundreds of millions of devices before they are found. However, new code (especially code which replaces a working implementation [joelonsoftware.com]) is almost guaranteed to be a greater risk.

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