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Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart
jones_supa writes: After Debian adopted systemd, many other Linux distributions based on that operating system made the switch as well. Ubuntu has already rolled out systemd in 15.04, but Linux Mint is providing dual options for users. The Ubuntu transition was surprisingly painless, and no one really put up a fight, but the Linux Mint team chose the middle ground. The Mint developers consider that the project needs to still wait for systemd to become more stable and mature, before it will be the default and only option.
Linux is merely the kernel used by systemd. The correct name of the operating system is systemd/GNU/Linux.
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
No. Systemd will integrate the GNU environment completely. Soon.
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I've been learning more about systemd lately, and I'm liking what I'm seeing. It's cohesive, yet it's completely modular. It's modern. Its binary log files make debugging easier. It's getting more and more critical functionality every day, and this makes my Linux system easier to use each time I update it.
The deeper I dig into systemd, and the more I use it, the more I question why we even need the GNU utilities and the Linux kernel.
I hope to see the most useful parts of the GNU toolchain and the most useful parts of the Linux kernel folded into systemd eventually. This way I don't have to install a Linux distro. I can just install systemd itself, and it will give me everything I need.
If my computer boots directly to systemd, and systemd provides the command line tools and the UI, then my boot time will be shaved down to almost nothing, and I'll get to use some really nice and modular command line tools. I won't have to try to remember awkward shell, sed, grep, and awk commands and their flags, because if systemd provided alternatives, I know they would be easier to use.
I've found that systemd is all about empowering me, as a user. It's about letting me get more done with less effort. GNU and Linux aren't always about that. They're about doing things for philosophical reasons, or for scratching an itch of their developers. Systemd is all about getting work done, which is why I've found it to be so useful. If it can do the things that the GNU toolchain and the Linux kernel are doing, but it can do them better, then I'd prefer just to use systemd directly.
a system like this never stores /etc or /var on persistent storage
including /var/log?? Well, I suppose that's one way to hide the fact that systemd's logs get corrupted.
Moderators, you might want to familiarize yourself with the festering pile of shit which is Lennart Poettering, as well as the pile of crap which is systemd, before you moderate any systemd discussions.
Please, tell us how you really feel! It's not clear to me from this sentence.
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