<div dir="ltr">More on systemd <br><br><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/print/248436">http://www.infoworld.com/print/248436</a><br><br>While systemd has succeeded in its original goals, it's not stopping there. systemd is becoming the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svchost" target="_blank">Svchost</a> <span class="">[5]</span>
of Linux -- which I don't think most Linux folks want. You see, systemd
is growing, like wildfire, well outside the bounds of enhancing the
Linux boot experience. systemd wants to control most, if not all, of the
fundamental functional aspects of a Linux system -- <a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bZId5j2jREQ/U-vlysklvCI/AAAAAAAACrA/B4JggkVJi38/w426-h284/bd0fb252416206158627fb0b1bff9b4779dca13f.gif" target="_blank">from authentication to mounting shares to network configuration to syslog to cron</a> <span class="">[6]</span>. It wants to do so as essentially a monolithic entity that obscures what's happening behind the scenes.<br>
<br>But there are also 45 years of history behind Unix and extremely good
reasons it's still flourishing. Tools designed like systemd do not fit
the Linux mold, to their own detriment. Systemd's design has more in
common with Windows than with Unix -- down to the binary logging.<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yet another article on systemd from someone who has been around for a while, and does not like the all-in-one concept that it forces on people ...<br>
<br>I agree with the gist of it, not the rant-ish tone though ...<br>
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