[GLLUG] systemd Follies

[Chick Tower]

Well, if it turns out to be as needlessly complicated and difficult as 
GrUB2, I say "Thanks for nothing."


                                Chick

On 08/25/2012 09:34 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2012, at 10:51 PM, Chick Tower wrote:
>> A story about Arch Linux planning to adopt systemd for its
>> initialization system prompted a lot of negative comments about
>> systemd.  It looks like it will affect a lot of us because Red Hat
>> wants to make it tie into other software, like Gnome 3.  You can
>> read them here.
>
> Systemd uses DBUS, which is also used by Gnome3 and a lot of other
> software, but I don't think that's really a valid criticism of
> systemd.  In fact, your link to the discussion about Arch Linux
> adopting systemd had links to a couple people complaining about the
> level of trolling about systemd that's going on in the mailing lists.
> There's a lot of bad information going around.
>
> I've been using systemd for the past year in Fedora, and to be
> honest, it's got a lot of advantages.  Systemd units are considerably
> less complex than the bash init scripts they replace, and startup
> speed really does improve.  Sure, the interface commands changed, but
> that's what you get for using a distro that is keeping close to the
> cutting edge.  If Red Hat is going to do anything, it'll be write
> compatibility interfaces for RHEL that'll make the old-timers happy.
>
> -- Jonathan Billings<billings at negate.org>