Michael . wrote on 2014-09-18 15:11 (GMT+1000):
Felix Miata wrote on 2014-09-18 00:15 (GMT-0400):
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http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and-the-impotent-rag...
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Felix thanks for the links, excellent reading and very informative but again personal opinion is rife in the first one. The second one is much better and does discuss some technical issues of systemd. The problem for me is if systemd is a problem why is Linus allowing it? Why are greater technical minds letting it take over if it is the problem people say it is?
IMO:
1-At the point when "Linus'" (solely I doubt) decision to proceed in fully supporting it was committed, need and desire for what was advertised/claimed it was and would become was valid.
2-It has been well crafted to induce resisting of support for alternative init system possibilities, in addition to making continued support for sysvinit virtually impossible.
3-It evolved, expanded and subsumed ravenously, a proverbial snowballing multiplied, down a tall mountain with a steep slope, unstoppable without a bigger than herculean effort, from an organization more powerful than the Linux universe leviathan RedHat pushing it.
4-It does provide benfits.
5-Improvements continue to occur, and are expected to continue.