On 2020-05-27 23:42, Christopher Browne wrote:
d) systemd is a Controversial System; the folk that seem particularly irate about it seem to be "Old Bearded Sysadmins" that hate the idea of redoing their understandings of how Unix systems initialize. Personally, my feelings are ambivalent; I'm using it where I find some use, and have not been displeased with my results. And since modern systems now have USB and network devices added and dropped on a whim, there's a critical need for something newer with more dynamic responses than old SysV Init. But I certainly "get" that some aren't so happy with it, and I'm not thrilled at the ongoing scope creep that never seems to end.
It is worth noting that systemd did not go for a one-binary-for-all approach. It has different binaries for different parts of the functionality. systemctl for controlling services, journalctl for controlling the journal, etc. Just as a data point to show that there is no single "new" way to do things.
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