[175571] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Thu Oct 23 19:35:51 2014
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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:35:35 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 10/23/2014 02:15, Matt Palmer wrote:
> This is the core problem with systemd, in my mind -- and what has gotten
> Linus, amongst other people, so thoroughly cheesed off with the systemd
> devs. They don't play well with other children. They don't appear
> particularly interested in reusing any existing code, because it's a lot
> more fun to write new code. I'm a strong proponent of Joel Spolsky's views
> on rewrites (sorry, no URL, I'm on the train) and I don't doubt that all the
> same problems will come to haunt systemd on its way from being the new kid
> on the block to being legacy code[1].
>
> - Matt
>
> [1] A computer industry term which means, "it works".
...and has for more than a month.
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