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Debian 8 Jessie Released
linuxscreenshot writes: After almost 24 months of constant development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 8 (code name Jessie), which will be supported for the next five years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and the Debian Long Term Support team. (Release notes.) Jessie ships with a new default init system, systemd. The systemd suite provides features such as faster boot times, cgroups for services, and the possibility of isolating part of the services. The sysvinit init system is still available in Jessie. Screenshots and a screencast are available.
The screenshots aren't looking bad but that Gnome quest for removing menu bars goes a bit far. What if you find yourself with no free space in a file manager window to right-click on. I tell people to use "Edit / Paste" or "File / Create a new folder" in that case.
Stop. That's the problem, right there.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
If systemd is in Debian, we might have consider that it won, even though there was a ton of backlash. Time to go read the docs on that animal, or I'll be plain old granpa neckbeard a lot sooner.
Perhaps it will kill your glorified memories of how GNU/Linux used to work. Things are changing and most importantly, things are improving. You don't have to like those improvements, but they are. The people that make GNU/Linux distributions, especially Debian, are super-serious about it. They would not have used systemd if it threatened the system's existence.
They certainly have to continue to improve before systemd becomes a more worthwhile option than the things it is replacing.
The only problem systemd solves is to replace things so old that they are maintained by people that have been coding for longer than Lennart Poettering.
You mean untested, unaudited code that is forced into production environments?
Untested, unaudited and forced into production? I've used it in production for five years (5!) now. Just because Debian is slow to adopt new technology doesn't mean that it's untested. People have used systemd in real-world production systems on other distributions since 2010, and has been around for a couple of years before that. This is hardly something brand new that just came from nowhere.
Let's see here. First I heard "systemd" was coming. I had no idea what it was. Then, running Mint 17.1, I found out what it was, switched to Ubuntu 15.04 to find out. I had heard horror stories how bad it was but I thought the people complaining must be some "old lazy system admins" how learned something new 20 years ago.
Ok, so here I am in Ubuntu 15.04. I see the shutdown/reboot process is fast. Why? Because the shutdown part of the reboot is fast, not the actual startup (compared to Ubuntu 14.10). I find out probable reason why it is that way. Normally processes are first sent the SIGTERM signal to make them quit in a controlled way. But that needs some waiting.
Now I see the new behavior is to just reboot/shutdown without waiting. Any unfinished editing is lost, connections are torn down forcefully. Why? Because this is the way it should be: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024452.html
Then I read more about this attitude from Wikipedia: "For instance, Poettering has advocated speeding up Linux development at the expense of breaking compatibility with POSIX and other Unix-like operating systems such as the BSDs.[12][13]".
I'm not anymore so sure about this. Personally, I will switch back to Mint until the regressions are fixed. What is the current progress and why do we have this type of "cowboy coding" process in place for standards and/or "de facto" functionality/dependencies? Why are there so many in Slashdot creating comments such as "Do you really think that systemd will kill your wife and eat your dog"?
After using and developing Debian for 18 years, this is the first release I have no plans to use, all thanks to the gnome and systemd idiocy. It hasn't been a nice experience, seeing a system build up with loving care by so many people over so long being willfully trashed by a small handful of people. I for one have no interest in being RedHat's bitch; if I wanted to be, I'd be a suffering Fedora or CentOS user. Debian has lost its independence and freedom.
I've been using FreeBSD for nearly 18 months now, and rarely boot up Debian on my systems or VMs. Going back 5 years, I'd never have imagined this is the way things would play out. Tragic.
What compiling? I have a farm of virtualized Debian 8 servers and they have been chugging happily in the last few months with systemd pinned to -1. And who are you to tell others to shut up and suck it up?
GP is reading from his own CV. He also has 3 years experience in doing the needful with Java 9.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I am just saying FreeBSD is a system made by sysadmin to sysadmins and not overrun by political bastardos. I sincerely doubt they will go the same route.
Why you start up so fast? Very nicely done!
So the twice a year I reboot is faster? That doesn't mean a damn thing to most Debian users. Ignoring stderr, nonzero exit statuses, and syslog messages is a much bigger deal. With those problems, systemd makes it nearly impossible to troubleshoot problems.
Really? It's the apocalypse?
Look, I don't like systemd from a design perspective. But it does do one or two things really well: It's standardized init scripts between each distribution and it has full process control. It can track a process no matter how many children it makes.
It does way too much other stuff too. The binary logs are dumb. It's not small and modular. Yada yada.
The biggest problem which needed to be solved was full process management and none of the other projects were really getting anywhere.
It sucks. It shows that Redhat controls way to much. Other projects weren't able to get in. Yea I know. But it's not causing systems to go unstable and crash all the time. Put some perspective into it.
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