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Ubuntu Concedes Defeat in Upstart vs Systemd

posted by janrinok on Tuesday March 18 2014, @09:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-everyone-will-be-happy dept.

elias writes:

"A very public and sometimes acrimonious dispute in the Debian ecosystem about upstart versus systemd has been settled in favour of systemd. Some go as far as to brand it a new era after the Linux civil war [Beware popups].

We also had an asksoylentnews question on what the fuzz was all about. But what can upstart contribute to systemd now the war is over, or will it simply be a technology that we remember fondly, but do not see any more in a few years time?"

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Wednesday March 19 2014, @03:36AM

    by sjames (2882) on Wednesday March 19 2014, @03:36AM (#18388) Journal

    There's nothing primitive about using a shell language that is Turing complete for customization.

    I see nothing in systemd that couldn't be accomplished in a cleaner manner with a few helper programs. Certainly there is no need to create an all singing all dancing monster with a tentacle in every pie.

    The Unix way of small tools that do one thing and do it well has served us well for decades, the other approach gave us Windows and a bunch of also-ran OSes.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday March 19 2014, @04:34PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday March 19 2014, @04:34PM (#18615)

    So I guess Solaris and AIX don't count as "UNIX" to you? How idiotic.

    • (Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday March 19 2014, @07:10PM

      by sjames (2882) on Wednesday March 19 2014, @07:10PM (#18655) Journal

      At this point, Solaris and Aix are also-rans. BSD still seems in the running though, it's fairly popular behind the scenes.