[kwlug-disc] What is all this about systemd?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

More on systemd

http://www.infoworld.com/print/248436

While systemd has succeeded in its original goals, it's not stopping there.
systemd is becoming the Svchost <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svchost> [5]
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
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[6]. It wants to do so as essentially a monolithic entity that obscures
what's happening behind the scenes.

But there are also 45 years of history behind Unix and extremely good
reasons it's still flourishing. Tools designed like systemd do not fit the
Linux mold, to their own detriment. Systemd's design has more in common
with Windows than with Unix -- down to the binary logging.




On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> Yet another article on systemd from someone who has been around for a
> while, and does not like the all-in-one concept that it forces on people ...
>
> I agree with the gist of it, not the rant-ish tone though ...
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/12/459
>
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