Re: Systemd migration: opinion and questions

Am 24.02.2015 22:51, schrieb Frank Peters:

> 
> 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

- ditto! -

Very well spoken.

Michael