Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide

snydeq writes The battle over systemd exposes a fundamental gap between the old Unix guard and a new guard of Linux developers and admins, writes Deep End's Paul Venezia. "Last week I posted about the schism brewing over systemd and the curiously fast adoption of this massive change to many Linux distributions. If there's one thing that systemd does extremely well, it is to spark heated discussions that devolve into wild, teeth-gnashing rants from both sides. Clearly, systemd is a polarizing subject. If nothing else, that very fact should give one pause. Fundamental changes in the structure of most Linux distributions should not be met with such fervent opposition. It indicates that no matter how reasonable a change may seem, if enough established and learned folks disagree with the change, then perhaps it bears further inspection before going to production. Clearly, that hasn't happened with systemd."

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Re:My opinion on the matter.

[gweihir]

Just my take on this thing. It also is complex, non-transparent, and will have a ton of vulnerabilities that NSA TAO can then leisurely walk into your system on. And it will be hard to avoid. Currently, it seems that the only way around it long-term will be going to Gentoo or Slackware. And the way it is introduced is extremely fishy and stinks of Red Had having PsyOps support and maybe a secret government mandate to put something like it in place or else. (Red Hat is mostly funded by the US military these days...)