[ale] systemd bad. Very bad.

[Kyle Brieden]

I haven't been a fan of systemd ever since Arch implemented it however 
long ago.  I don't care for the binary logging format, nor do I care for 
the monolithic nature of it.  That being said, I understand that we 
can't just keep rolling with the init systems that we have, because 
technology grows and changes.  Those init systems weren't written to 
handle new technologies and methods.

That being said, I'm willing to give it a fair shake.  I use it daily on 
Oracle Linux 7 (yea... we use OL7 because it's supported and 
binary-compatible with RHEL, while still being leaps and bounds cheaper 
than RHEL) and it doesn't utterly suck.  It does require a lot of 
ideology shifts and process changes, though.

In the spirit of giving it a fair shake, Solomon, would you be willing 
to expound upon what you've learned about systemd that makes you 
appreciate (like?) it?

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Very respectfully,
Kyle Brieden

On 29-06-2017 14:49, Jim Kinney wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 14:35 -0400, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 01:25:31PM -0500, Joey Kelly wrote:
>>> One more in a long list of reasons why systemd is a horrible and
>>> risky proposition: putting DNS resolution in your init system:
>> You're right; putting DNS resolution into your init system is a
>> horrible idea. Fortunately, no init systems -- systemd included --
>> do that.
> 
> +1
> 
>>> The more I learn about systemd, the more I think it's attack
>>> against Linux.
>> You have a lot more to learn.
> 
> +1
> 
> The more I learn about systemd, the more I see why it was written.
> 
>> - Solomon
>> 
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