On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 09:25:15AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
Hoping to not offend proponents of systemd/firewalld...
Perhaps if you weren't spreading misinformation, we wouldn't be offended?
Linux kernel is already containing chunks of code related to systemd/firewalld and friends. One can disable stuff during kernel build, but the result it still is not like the result of building kernel before the existence of systemd/firewalld.
None of this is true. It's true that systemd uses some Linux-only features like cgroups, but I was using those features well before systemd came around. And firewalld uses Linux only specific features too -- it manages the NETFILTER rules which is a linux-specific project. The only thing that seems to be in common is that they are both projects that end with 'd'. I suppose you're going to start claiming that SSHd, HTTPd and NTPd are up to no good.
Also, it is likely that at some point systemd-free Linux distribution(s) may fade away.
There was already a move away from SysV init before systemd was introduced, heck RHEL6/CentOS6 used Upstart instead of SysV. There are always going to be projects with a diverse set of tools, it just depends on how many people care about it. Turns out, not that many people care about maintaining a SysV init (or other init) distro.