Baho Utot wrote: > I am just getting aggravated with the direction of linux with the > cgroups etc.
# CONFIG_CGROUPS is not set > I'll be glad when I get LFS/BLFS built to KDE so I can ditch distros. Try xfce. The build is faster and it seems to run cleanly without a lot of unwanted bells and whistles. > It goes beyond kernel modules, systemd will respawn daemons that have > stopped/failed. Opps slap me silly they are not daemons they are > services now. It will only start a daemon/process/service if it is > needed by some package on demand, so much for you if you would like it > started at boot. xinetd resurrected. That stuff is needed if you want to trigger 100 processes for the ignorant user and don't want them all, but the big distro wants to be able to offer them. > The log file is binary and not just a text file so if > something barfs you need to boot to something that has the systemd utils > on the to read the log file to what happened. I agree that that is, shall we say, short sighted. Of course there are a few files hanging around for a long time that do the same thing. For example wtmp, btmp. > Also on the horizon is software packages are starting to change there > startup away from sysvinit scripts or scripts in general. You can see > this with Arch linux. That's why we have LFS. > I don't really care about boot up or shut down time... I care about the > speed/ease of use while I am USING the computer. The boot time is just one excuse being used to justify systemd. I agree with your observations. > Ah feel better now ;) I'm glad. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
