[Discuss] systemd explanations

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 21:50:26 -0500
IngeGNUe <ingegnue at riseup.net> wrote:

> There was discussion about systemd tonight and among the remarks was
> that there weren't any satisfying technical explanations, or
> explanation in general.
> 
> Not sure if this is technical enough for your tastes, but it did make
> me feel more warmly towards the systemd switchover in many distros,
> so upon request this is the blog post I found:
> 
> http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html
> 
> I haven't forgiven the decision to have binary logs, but apparently
> systemd follows the unix way?

See also that page's companion:

http://judecnelson.blogspot.com/2014/09/systemd-biggest-fallacies.html

I would add one more fallacy: Almost every pro-systemd document, blog,
presentation and video presents it as a choice between systemd and
sysvinit, or possibly systemd vs sysvinit vs upstart. But the truth
is, there are many other init systems, one of which I use every day.

> 
> For everything else, GuixSD isn't running systemd so maybe that's
> worth a look :)

And...

*BSD
Void Linux
Gentoo and Funtoo
Manjaro OpenRC
Alpine Linux
Slackware
Many more.

If "Alpine Linux" sounds familiar, that's the new development platform
Docker is moving to.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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