[CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

[Steve Clark]

On 07/08/2014 08:09 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> On 08.07.2014 13:57, Scott Robbins wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 06:50:21PM -0700, Russell Miller wrote:
>>> On Jul 7, 2014, at 6:34 PM, Scott Robbins<scottro at nyc.rr.com>  wrote:
>>>> No systemd in FreeBSD.  It isn't Linux, and like any O/S, has its own
>>>> oddities.
>>>>
>>>> It would take more adjustment, IMHO, to go from CentOS 6.x to FreeBSD than
>>>> to go to 7.x.  (I'm saying this as someone who uses both FreeBSD and
>>>> Fedora which has given a hint of what we'll see in CentOS 7.)
>>>>
>>> That's a good point.  Systemd may be the "abomination of desolation" that
>>> causes me to finally start moving to a BSD variant.  Or at least start looking at one.
>> Y'know, I was considered a troll when I said on Fedora forums that systemd
>> going into server systems might start driving people away from RH to the
>> BSDs.  (And to be honest, I was being trollish there, in a friendly way--in
>> the same way at work I'll say something about Arch loudly enough for our
>> Arch lover to hear.)
>>
>> Now that it's insinuated itself in the RHEL system, I do wonder if it is
>> going to start driving people away.  In many ways, IMHO, RH has become the
>> Windows of Linux, with no serious competitors, at least here in the US.
>> Sure, some companies use something else, but when I had to job hunt last
>> year, 90-95 percent of the Linux admin jobs were for RedHat/CentOS/OEL/SL
>> admins.
> 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.
>
> Regards,
>    Dennis

My concern it that it is a massive change with a large footprint. How secure is it really? It has arguably become
the second kernel it touches and handles so many things.

Maybe on desktops it makes sense - but I fail to see any positives for servers that once started run for months at a time
between reboots.

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