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

[Aaron Kulkis]

Michael Corral wrote:
> 2015-02-23, Monsieur Garry Stahl a ecrit:
>> On 02/23/2015 01:25 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>>  On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 13:09 -0500, David Lee Lambert wrote:
>>> >  Well, depends what you mean by "consumed". Not in Debian Stable yet, it >  is
>>> >  in Debian Testing but in theory there are alternatives.  And, in my >  testing
>>> >  of Testing so far, on two fresh-installed VMs, no issues with it.
>>>  Running openSUSE - systemd  - on my laptop(s).  Use them all day every
>>>  day.  No systemd related issues.
>>>
>> Likewise.  openSUSE on all computers,m no issues.
>
> I've been running systemd on Fedora for almost 4 years, when
> Fedora 15 became the first distro to make systemd the default
> init system. What problems am I supposed to be having? Because
> I've never had any, even on production servers running Apache,
> Tomcat, and PostgreSQL (yes, servers running Fedora - scary!:).
>
> At first, I didn't like systemd because it was unfamiliar to me.
> But once I learned how to use it, I liked it and now think it's
> a big improvement over the old SysV init system. In Fedora, having
> systemd logs forwarded to syslog is the default (it's a setting in
> /etc/systemd/journald.conf), so you can still have the old-style
> logging if you prefer that.
>
> I do think that a lot of the complaints about systemd are simply due
> to ignorance, though there are some crusty curmudgeons stuck in 1991
> who just don't want to learn anything new (or took the fictional
> "UNIX philosophy" about "do one thing, blah blah blah ..." a bit
> too seriously:).

No, it's that 25 different areas and counting have all been
consumed by ONE huge monolithic program, worst of all, running
as PID 1.

This means that one or two bugs can cause catastrophic consequences,
because this one process has its hands in EVERYTHING.

Do you drive without either a steering wheel or brakes?

Systemd works great when it works.

When it's broken, it's a complete b**** to fix.