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Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems

Posted by Soulskill on from the if-you-want-something-done-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The next version of systemd is poised to introduce an experimental "systemd-consoled" that serves as a user-space console daemon. The consoled furthers the Linux developers' goal of eventually deprecating the VT subsystem found within the Linux kernel in favor of a user-space driven terminal that supports better localization, increased security, and greater robustness of the kernel's seldom touched and hairy CONFIG_VT'ed code.

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  1. Re:it solves some unicode issues by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because people like their crappy old OS. They constantly whine about linux not being adopted by the masses but don't want to change anything about it.

  2. Re:it solves some unicode issues by BasilBrush · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Systemd goes against the KISS principle that Linux and Unix have long followed. However, many would argue that Linux has become too complex for this principle to work when it comes to system management. For user space, it is becoming more of necessity.

    Right. There's nothing simple about system configuration by editing script and other text files sprinkled in unpredictable directories around the file system. This is one of the primary reasons that most people that try desktop Linux reject it. And yet the religious doctrine of Unix, dating back to the 1970s, stops many enthusiasts from seeing it as a problem at all.