On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 03:52:10PM -0700, Keith Keller wrote:
On 2014-07-07, Always Learning centos@u62.u22.net wrote:
Reading about systemd, it seems it is not well liked and reminiscent of Microsoft's "put everything into the Windows Registry" (Win 95 onwards).
Has anyone here actually interacted with systemd, and if so could you perhaps provide a writeup of your experiences? I feel like I haven't seen any practical information on systemd in this thread, and I'd like to have that before forming an initial opinion (at which point I'd attempt to interact with it myself in order to form a better informed opinion).
I've been using systemd ever since it was introduced in Fedora, and the RHEL7 beta and CentOS7 final since it came out. I could tell you about all the positive and negative experiences I've had. There's been a lot of misinformation posted on this list (such as the Windows Registry reference)[1]. I wouldn't want to make any decisions about systemd based on what I've seen on this list.
However, I think you should try it out yourself. I suggest giving it a try in a VM, or try one of the CentOS7 LiveCDs. I was quite hesitant about systemd when I started using it, but it was experience that led me to be able to make good judgements about it.
1. See the systemd myths web page http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html