[mdlug] Systemd Should Be A Fork -- Why Is It Not?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 11:20 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Systemd fixes some minor problems, and creates new, MAJOR problems.  

Which are?

Inter-service dependencies are hardly a "minor" problem; they result in
things not working.  [cgroups]  And assigning resource constraints to
process groups - amazing.

As well as old problems such as determining "am I online?"  Ever
written the code to determine that?  And do so reliably; an awful task.
[SystemD networkd]

syslog, as previously mentioned, has been a MAJOR problem in LINUX for
a very long time.  With no generally accepted alternatives. SystemD
brings us a journal, finally. [SystemD journald]

How have you previously handled a mobile LINUX device that moves
between time zones?  [SystemD timezoned]

And there is udevd for all those hot-plug devices which now just-work
and is also a real win for administration [scripting for device-connect
is drop dead easy... before, not so much].

If these constitute the resolution of "minor" issues I have no idea
what a "major" issue is.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA