On 2014-02-10 13:04, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > I thought it would be worth sharing what I have just read. Perhaps not > everybody knows about it yet. > > 1. Debian votes for systemd > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00338.html
I just came across an interesting blog article today: "Debian's discussion of whether to adopt systemd or not basically devolved into a false dichotomy between systemd and upstart. None of the things systemd "does right" are at all revolutionary. They've been done many times before. DJB's daemontools, runit, and Supervisor, among others, have solved the "legacy init is broken" problem over and over again (though each with some of their own flaws). Their failure to displace legacy sysvinit in major distributions had nothing to do with whether they solved the problem, and everything to do with marketing. Said differently, there's nothing great and revolutionary about systemd. Its popularity is purely the result of an aggressive, dictatorial marketing strategy including elements such as: * Engulfing other "essential" system components like udev and making them difficult or impossible to use without systemd. * Setting up for API lock-in (having the DBus interfaces provided by systemd become a necessary API that user-level programs depend on). * Dictating policy rather than being scoped such that the user, administrator, or systems integrator (distribution) has to provide glue. This eliminates bikesheds and thereby fast-tracks adoption at the expense of flexibility and diversity." More at http://ewontfix.com/14/ -- Igor Živković http://www.slashtime.net/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
