[CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

Tue Jul 8 14:57:18 UTC 2014
Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com>

On 07/08/2014 10:49 AM, Russell Miller wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2014, at 5:09 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote:
>> That presumes that your conservative attitude is the majority opinion
>> though. Systemd is one of the features that I have been looking forward
>> to in CentOS 7 because of the new capabilities it provides so while this
>> will surely drive some people away it will actually attract others and
>> if you think that this will lead to some sort of great exodus then I
>> think you are mistaken. Not everybody is this uncomfortable with change.
>>
> For the record, I'm not uncomfortable with change.  I'm uncomfortable with stupid,
> poorly thought out, monolithic change that ignores half a century of the UNIX philosophy.
> And creating a daemon that tries to handle everything but the kitchen sink and implementing
> it in such a way as to make it nearly incomprehensible to me certainly qualifies
> as that type of change.
>
> Sysvinit may not be perfect, but it's UNIX.  Systemd is...  a lot of things, but more
> of a windows-like solution than I"m comfortable with.  It's just dumb.  Surely there could
> have been a better way of accomplishing their goals without creating the equivalent of
> Cartman's Trapper Keeper.
>
> And yea, I'm kind of an old white guy (is 38 old?)  The guy who called that out as
> a negative is not helping his cause with me.  This old white guy has been doing Linux
> administration when some people on this list were pulling the hair of girls they liked
> and eating bugs.
>
> (and if that was yesterday, I don't want to hear about it. :))
>
> --Russell
Couldn't have said it better.

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