[175378] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Oct 21 09:40:54 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:44:57 +0900."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:40:30 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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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."
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