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New Year's Resolutions For *nix SysAdmins (cyberciti.biz)
An anonymous reader writes: A new year, with old systems. It is time to break bad old habits and develop good new ones. This list talks about new years resolutions for Linux and Unix sysadmins. List includes turning on 2FA on all services, making peace with systemd, installing free SSL/TLS certificates, avoiding laptops with horrible screens or wireless whitelist in BIOS, building Linux gaming rig and more. What resolutions are on your list regarding sysadmin or IT work in 2016?
The main arguments against systemd are that it's monolithic
Here is the output of ps -ef | grep systemd on a Ubuntu 14.04 desktop which uses upstart and not systemd as its init system:
root 387 1 0 2015 ? 00:00:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd --daemon /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root 701 1 0 2015 ? 00:00:00
It's clearly not completely monolithic if you can run two fairly central components without even the init daemon present.
rapidly becoming non-optional
Yes, in some distros. It's entirely up to the distro maintainers what options they want to support. That they choose to focus on supporting systemd is hardly systemd's fault.
was quickly shoved into every distro that matters.
Systemd was included in Fedora 15 which was released almost five years ago and we still have distros that are going to switch. This is one of the slowest tech migrations ever to take place in the GNU/Linux community.