Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:08:22 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World |
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On 12/08/14 01:38 PM, Christopher Barry wrote: > > > What is intelligence? Not exactly the spook kind, but rather what is > the definition of intelligence in humans? This is pretty good: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence#Definitions > > By most accounts, the self-appointed and arguably too influential > creators and thinkers of the day around the 'One Linux' idea fit the > definition of intelligent people - at least in the technical realm. > > And their messages are pretty compelling: > * Simplify cross-distro development. > * Enable faster boot times. > * Enable an on-demand, event driven architecture, similar to 'Modern' > Operating Systems. > * Bring order and control to subsystems that have had as many different > tools as there were distros. > > All seemingly noble goals. All apparently come from a deep desire to > contribute and make things better. > > Almost anyone could argue that these intelligent people thought hard > about these issues, and put an enormous amount of effort into a > solution to these problems. Unfortunately, the solution they came up > with, as you may have guessed by now, is 'systemd'. > > While not new, it's grotesque impact has finally reached me and I must > speak to it publicly. > > So, what is systemd? Well, meet your new God. You may have been praying > at the alter of simplicity, but your religion is being deprecated. It > likely already happened without your knowledge during an upgrade of > your Linux box. systemd is the all knowing, all controlling meta-deity > that sees all and supervises all. It's the new One Master Process that > aspires to control everything it can - and it's already doing a lot. > It's what init would look like if it were a transformer on steroids. > It's complicated, multi-faceted, opaque, and supremely powerful. > > I had heard about systemd a few years back, when upstart and some other > init replacements I can't remember were showing up on the scene. And > while it seemed mildly interesting, I was not in favor of using it, nor > any of them for that matter. init was working just fine for me. init > was simple and robust. While configuration had it's distro-specific > differences, it was often these differences that made one pick the > distro to use in the first place, and to stay with that distro. The > tools essentially *were* the distro. I just dist-upgraded to Jessie, > and voila - PID 1 was suddenly systemd. What a clusterfuck.
You might want to send this to a mailing list that's remotely relevant, like perhaps a Debian one. Though I wouldn't expect a very productive response there either, since you neglected to include any reasons behind your rant other than "they changed it, now it sucks".
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