[mdlug] Systemd and all of it's nonsensical BS

[Aaron Kulkis]

Jay Nugent wrote:
> Greetings Aaron (et al),
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> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
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>> Are there any distros other than Slackware that haven't been borg-like consumed by this atrocious act of sabotage and vandalism?
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>> SysV Init has problems but systemd seems to cause more problems than what it fixes.
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>     Agreed.  While teaching Unix/Linux SysAdmin at Washtenaw Community College it was EASY to teach SysVinit because it made sense.  I would then introduce systemd and the stoodies would react like, WTF!!!!????
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>     They then fully understood why I refered to these programmers as "Snot-nosed, Pimply-faced kids" - who were changing things not for the better, but just because they *could* and they had the POWER.
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>     Early in the classes we taught the basis of Unix being, "do just one thing, but do it really really really really really really really really really really really well!"
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>     To the stoodies, it appeared that systemd was "hiding" something under the covers.  Which led to NSA discussions and conspiracies.  It appeared that if systemd was 'supposed' to improve boot-up times, they had clearly overleached their goal by messing with logging, etc.  And some stoodies even thought that maybe some out-of-work programmers from Microsoft decided to try their hand at Linux, and managed to convert it to run more like Microsoft code than we had ever seen before.
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>     These newbie students seemed to SEE what was going on, more so than those that had been in the Unix/Linux field for decades.  These kids could see all sorts of problems where systemd *changed* the basis that Unix was built upon and had suceeded for decades using that implied standard - do one thing, but do it really really....really well.
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>     I am ready to go back to FreeBSD for my servers.  Linux has drifted away from its origins and thus has lost my support.
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I've been in the Army since 1989... and this all seems to have started shortly after some
applications (such as the FBCB2 [aka Blue Force Tracker] system) was moved from Solaris/386
to Redhat.

And guess who employes Poettering and Sievers....

Almost all of the bad ideas are coming out or RedHat (RPM being the exception).