Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

Wed Oct 22 01:13:03 UTC 2014

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:40:30AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:44:57 +0900, Randy Bush said:
> > systemd is insanity.  one would have hoped that deb and others would
> > know better.  sigh.
> 
> It started as a replacement init system.  I suspected it had jumped
> the shark when it sprouted an entirely new DHCP and NTP service.  And this
> was confirmed when I saw this:
> 
> "Leading up to this has been cursor rendering support, keyboard mapping
> support, screen renderer, DRM back-end, input interface, and dozens of other
> commits."
> 
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwNzQ
> 
> When your init system is worrying about cursor rendering, you have truly
> fallen victim to severe feature bloat.  I guess Jamie Zawinski was right:
> "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail."

Ooooh...

/me submits a patch to systemd to provide localhost:25 and
//usr/sbin/sendmail emulation...

- Matt

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