Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:44:57 +0900, Randy Bush said:
> > systemd is insanity.  one would have hoped that deb and others would
> > know better.  sigh.
> It started as a replacement init system.  I suspected it had jumped
> the shark when it sprouted an entirely new DHCP and NTP service.  And this
> was confirmed when I saw this:
>
> "Leading up to this has been cursor rendering support, keyboard mapping
> support, screen renderer, DRM back-end, input interface, and dozens of other
> commits."
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwNzQ
>
> When your init system is worrying about cursor rendering, you have truly
> fallen victim to severe feature bloat.  I guess Jamie Zawinski was right:
> "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail."

Actually - this kind of sums it all up:
http://www.muylinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/funny-systemd.gif
Good for a morning laugh.

Miles Fidelman

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