[ale] systemd or not

[David Tomaschik]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:03 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:23 PM, David Tomaschik
> <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
> > Is there anywhere that actually provides a coherent technical argument
> for
> > why systemd is bad?  So far the complaints I've found online are "I'll
> need
> > to learn something new", "it's bloated" (ok, true, but so is so much of
> our
> > software these days), and "don't fix what isn't broken."  (Except, to
> some
> > people, the status quo is broken.)
>
> David, how many important discussions are purely technical? It's not
> that the idea of a better application stack init system is wrong. The
> issue is that working system admins have a lot on their plates and
> little time to learn new toys that only work on a portion of their
> machines.
>

That's an argument for standardization of your fleet of machines, not an
argument against new technologies.  I'm not arguing for systemd, I just
can't seem to find a decent *technical* comparison of them.


>
> That, and having "pulse audio" on a resume does not inspire me to
> one's technical skills.
>
> Leam
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