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Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux
walterbyrd (182728) sends this article about systemd from Paul Venezia, who writes:
In discussions around the Web in the past few months, I've seen an overwhelming level of support of systemd from Linux users who run Linux on their laptops and maybe a VPS or home server. I've also seen a large backlash against systemd from Linux system administrators who are responsible for dozens, hundreds, or thousands of Linux servers, physical and virtual. ... The release of RHEL 7 has brought the reality of systemd to a significant number of admins whose mantra is stability over all else and who perhaps had not waded into the choppier waters of Fedora or Debian unstable to work with systemd before it arrived in RHEL.
The division is not between administrators and users but between luddites and users. Luddite administrators generally spent years learning all the arcana of Unix administration and simply can't accept that a large body of this knowledge is now inapplicable. THAT'S the source of "systemd divide".
Oh, and in our company we manage clusters of up to 30000 machines for our customers. And we simply _love_ systemd because it makes so much easier to make reliable clusters.
init systems pre-systemd hardly did just one thing and hardly did it well.
Someone else doing something wrong (in someone's opinion) isn't a justification to also do something wrong (in someone else's opinion).
Uh, I guess that's a messed up way to say "two wrongs don't make a right?"
I inserted a bit of critical information you missed in your sentence. If systemd is so very very wrong then people wouldn't use it right? Certainly no major distro will go out of their way to adopt something wrong. Not unless it is that not everyone thinks it is wrong.
- Hide everything in a binary blob
- Embrace monoculture
- Do not play well with others - especially UNIX
- There can only be one and so you must win at any cost
- Replace accepted standards with *your* standard
- Embrace, extend and extinguish because the people responsible for it have a culture which wants that
- Adopt Borg philosophy: resistance is futile, we have already won, why are you arguing?
- Be intensely hubristic: systemd is the best, therefore systemd is superior to all other systems, therefore systemd should to the jobs that other systems do.