Greg Wooledge (12024-11-29): > Now, you might ask why the systemd journal is being preferred and kept > over human-readable log files. I don't think anyone on debian-user > knows the answer to this.
The answer is certainly the same as for the rest of systemd: the old system had terrible flaws and needed to be replaced, and while the Libre Software developers were busy arguing each for their pet project that fixes about half the flaws while ignoring the other half or even pretending they are features, the industrial bulldozer of Red Hat arrived with systemd, that not so much fixed all the flaws as made them irrelevant by the virtue of replacing the board of snakes and ladders with a board of hungry hungry hippos with its own different set of flaws, but at least that more or less worked out of the box. Regards, -- Nicolas George
