On Sun, January 11, 2015 8:29 pm, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 01/11/2015 09:24 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> On Sun, January 11, 2015 7:29 pm, Keith Keller wrote: >>> On 2015-01-12, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: >>>> PS I guess I just mention it. I'm quite happy about CentOS (or RedHat >>>> if >>>> I >>>> look back). One day I realized how happy I am that I chose RedHat way >>>> back, - that was when all Debian (and its clones like Ubuntu,...) >>>> admins >>>> were fighting with the consequences of this: >>>> http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571 . If I had Debian machine >>>> I >>>> would not only regenerate all key pairs, certs, etc. I would question >>>> sanity of that box then, and will not be certain what confidential >>>> stuff >>>> could have been stolen from it... I realized then that that level big >>>> flop >>>> never happened to RedHat. I couldn't even point to something that >>>> would >>>> constitute big flop RedHat of then. One only criticizes something >>>> while >>>> one cares about it ;-) >>> Heartbleed was pretty scary, no? I'd consider that at least as bad as >>> the predictable number generator issue. >>> >> Well, heratbleed and shellshock were pretty much global: all systems >> (not >> only Linuxes, not to say particular Linux distributions - my FreeBSD >> boxes >> were affected too) using openssl or bash were affected... Same bad, yet >> these were not flops of particular distribution, so whichever system you >> decided to stick with , you had these. Not certain about you, but this >> kind of makes difference for me. When I say I'm happy about [me choosing >> way back] RedHat heartbleed, no heartbleed, no difference. >> >> Valeri >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Valeri Galtsev >> Sr System Administrator >> Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics >> Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics >> University of Chicago >> Phone: 773-702-4247 >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I guess everyone will have an opinion of systemd whether it be good or > bad. The only resolution is to either use a distro that has systemd on > it, use a distro that DOESN'T have systemd on it...or build your OWN > distro and don't include systemd! I guess when it all boils down to it, > there's STILL choice.....even when it doesn't seem like there is! > I wouldn't quite agree with you about someone building one's own Linux distro without systemd. You see, systemd _IS_ in the mainstrem Linux kernel which you imminently have to use. Having distro with kernel to that level not mainstream, so systemd related stuff is stripped off it is quite a task. Less that writing one's own kernel and building system based on it, still... Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++