Re: OT: complaints about systemd

What I would like to stress is that systemd is practically incompatible and
a great annoyance for both Hurd and kfreeBSD. OpenRC IMHO always seemed a
better replacement for the traditional init. My 2 cents.
On Oct 10, 2014 5:15 PM, "Jason Young" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Normally I'm content to lurk and read things that happen on this mailing
> list, but what Michael here has linked has me where I just have to respond.
>
> If this is what the systemd people wanted in the first place, then
> everything that has come before seems to be a deception. In the guise of
> solving init problems, they mean to start a process that would end Linux as
> we know it.
>
> At this point, it's a different OS, and one that seems to be a whole lot
> of work for seemingly not much of a result. I'm honestly having a hard time
> wrapping my head around just what they're trying to do with this. With all
> these multiple versions of distros and DEs and such, it seems to me this is
> just setting up for even more bugs, user headaches, and huge amounts of
> wasted hard drive space.
>
> I'd like to think that were this forwarded to various distro heads, they'd
> drop systemd like the plague and invest in something like OpenRC, but I'm
> not very optimistic about that anymore.
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Speaking about exchanging complexity...
>> http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html
>> (busy start with chapter 'User')
>>
>> All that under the hood of 'systemd' just appears like a trojan horse.
>> They should've called it DLL (Distributors-Less Linux) in the first place.
>>
>> And yes, they're gonna replace Login and the Linux VT console too :) just
>> about anything.
>>
>>
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