[175379] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Tue Oct 21 09:51:18 2014
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:51:05 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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."
Actually - this kind of sums it all up:
http://www.muylinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/funny-systemd.gif
Good for a morning laugh.
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
