Re: Systemd migration: opinion and questions

On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:15:45 +0100
Marc Joliet <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> I liked systemd enough to want to switch my desktop to it before I
> managed to finish writing this.  And holy crap, Duncan was right: systemd is
> *so* *fast* on an SSD, it's just not funny.  It takes *3 seconds* after the
> kernel boots for me to get a login screen
>

It requires about just as long (3 secs) on my desktop machine *without*
systemd by just using my custom bash init script (no sysvinit or openrc either).
Furthermore, I use no SSD.

But there's also no login required so it's probably even faster -- and
there's also no long list of permanently running daemons as well.
(After a boot, ps ax shows a very sparse process list.)

For me, systemd is totally unnecessary, excessively burdensome, and
highly obfuscating to a complete control and understanding of my
system.

To each his own.  If you want/need it, fine.  But don't expect me,
or everyone else, to slavishly follow.

As has been more or less officially stated, systemd is an attempt to
provide a uniform and monolithic kernel-user space interface FOR THE
BENEFIT OF POTENTIAL (COMMERCIAL) SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS.  RedHat wants
Linux to be just like MS Windows so that *they* (RedHat) can be just
like MS Windows.

Let RedHat leave (fork) the Linux community and go their own separate
way.

Maybe it's time to begin shifting a lot more attention to Gentoo/FreeBSD.

Frank Peters