On Saturday 30 November 2024 08:37:03 am Nicolas George wrote: > 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, >
Ah. Now we know who to blame for it... :-) -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
