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

Wed Oct 22 16:30:57 UTC 2014

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman at meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>
> Seems to me, this has been a very rational discussion,

Hardly.  The discussion so far has been weighted very heavily on the
side of Dana Carvey's "Grumpy Old Man"-style whining. "That's the way
it was and we liked it!".

The people that like systemd (like myself) have wisely learned that
the people that hate systemd, hate it mostly because it's different
from what came before and don't want to change.  There's no way to
argue rationally with that.

> confined to one very identifiable thread,

Thank goodness!

> containing what at least this reader finds very useful
> (operational impacts of systemd in server-side environments, and what
> alternatives people are looking at).

Just because it's useful, doesn't mean that it isn't off-topic for
NANOG.  At least until Cisco starts using systemd as pid 1 in IOS XE I
suppose...

> If you're not interested, you have a delete key.  Please use it, and don't
> turn this into a flame war.

Sure, I have a delete key, but it'd still be better if people moved
this discussion somewhere more appropriate.

-- 
Jeff Ollie