From efb5f6b08ec1cd60451f79e6907c86a7a0319b9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Bercot Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:54:33 +0000 Subject: Doc update about systemd --- doc/systemd.html | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/systemd.html b/doc/systemd.html index 49ba2aa..7b6c56a 100644 --- a/doc/systemd.html +++ b/doc/systemd.html @@ -82,23 +82,32 @@ is always a sign of developer hubris and inexperience, and never a sign of good engineering. Ever. Remember sendmail, BIND, INN, and, definitely a better analogy, the early days of Microsoft Windows ? Yes, systemd is in exactly the same league. It's as if we had learned nothing from the -mistakes of the past 20 years. Technically as well as politically, systemd -is actually very close to Windows; is that the future we want for Linux -machines ? +mistakes of the past 20 years. The systemd programmers may be better at +writing code than the BIND programmers - which isn't saying much - but +they are just as bad at designing software, and when said software +is process 1 and basically the whole low-level userland layer, it is +frightening.

- Doing more instead of less is bad, and it's especially true in the case of + Yes, doing more instead of less is especially bad in the case of system software, i.e. low-level software that aims to make the machine work and that application software depends upon. The goal of an operating system is to make it possible to run applications, and system software should always partake in that goal. System software -should stay the heck out of the way, and systemd is big, loud and -obnoxious. Embedded devices are common, and will become even more common in -the future; that is a market that systemd will have trouble breaking into, because -it's a lot more complex than embedded devices need. And that, too, says something: -if a software suite is too complex for an embedded device, maybe it's just too -complex, period. +should stay the heck out of the way, which is exactly what systemd does +not. +

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+ Technically as well as politically, systemd is actually very similar to +Microsoft Windows. If it is not fought, it is going to cause a lot of harm +to the Linux ecosystem. It has already begun. +

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+ s6 is my humble contribution to the fight against systemd, and I am +committed to making it evolve so it becomes a real alternative.

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  • An analysis of the vacuity of most Internet arguments about systemd, by the author of uselessd.
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  • boycottsystemd.org, summarizing -political arguments against systemd
  • Technical arguments against systemd, by Rich Felker, main author of musl
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