Re: [tlug] Um, so... systemd?

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 01/15/2017 04:40 PM, David J Iannucci wrote:
> I don't mean to start a flame war or anything (hee :=) but I am just
> today discovering what seems to have happened in the Linux world,
> recently, with systemd.

> But apparently.... Debian has officially switched over to systemd and
> the world is coming to an end? I've read a bunch of stuff today, this
> being maybe the most virulent:
>
>   https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and-the-impotent-rage-against-systemd/
>
> And it sounds like Red Hat and its "fascist" developers, the ones who
> are forcing this change through, are the Trumps of the Linux world? Am I
> understanding this correctly?
>
> I very much respect the views of people on this list and now I feel a
> little surprised that there hasn't been more discussion of this topic
> here over the last couple years (Have I missed it?)
>
> Anyway..... again, not to start a big thing, but what are y'all's
> general viewpoints (briefly? :=) on systemd and how it is taking over
> the Linux distro world...

Linux development seems to be dominated by colourful personalities and 
so technical discussions can descend into this sort of thing.

I have been using systemd with Gentoo, CoreOS and Ubuntu and it works 
well enough.  Systemd has some more complexity then sysvinit based 
setups but it does more.  It has a bunch of new tools you have to learn 
to use.  If its going to be used consistently across distributions it 
should make system administration tasks a bit easier.

Edward