Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
By: Accession to Gamgee on Sat Jun 29 2024 07:22 am
> Not sure what you have against systemd. I gladly switched over when it was
> introduced, and have never had an issue. A lot less scripting involved,
> that's for sure.
I like bootup scripts.
The real problem with systemd is not how it manages booting. The problem is it w
as conceived from the get-go as a tool from the Red Hat ecosystem to take over s
trategical userspace components of the Linux sphere (such as sudo, syslogd, the
myriad seat managers, you name them). Since it was a political tool it was used
politically and many software projects started adopting it as a required depende
ncy well before they had technical reasons to do so (such as when Gnome announce
d it would classify it as a blessed dependency).
SystemD is like the Seamonkey web-browser: a semi-modular solution that incorpor
ates lots of functions not related to its declared purpose at all. Sometimes tha
t is exactly what you need, and that is fine. Sometimes you only need a web brow
ser and would rather use Netsurf. The problem is lots of software projects jumpe
d the gun for no very good (official) reason and made it hard for everybody to u
se anything but SystemMonkeyD... current systemdless solutions that actually wor
k exist due only to massive effort from the FOSS community.
BTW there are enough pieces of circumpstancial evidence to suggest systemd's ble
ssed side effect was to cripple the BSD ecosystem explicitly. Not that it is wor
king that well. The BSDs have a tendency not to try to be Linux.
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