> * it is buggy. I did install a straightforward install of experimental > GNOME to test if it improved even a bit, running systemd as init, and, with > 2G RAM assigned to the machine, I got an OOM from one of systemd's > components. Excuse me for not looking more closely but purging the machine > and running away screaming: even in early stages of integration, an init > system which even *can* possibly OOM is not fit for any non-toy use. > > * it breaks other users of cgroups. I have not tested this personally > (mostly because of the above point), but if I understand it right, it takes > over the whole cgroups system, requiring anything that runs on the same > kernel instance to beg it via dbus to perform required actions. This might > be possible to organize on a single system, but not really between multiple > systems on the same kernel. Even if you run massive Rube Goldberg tricks > (akin to those once needed for dbus inside a chroot), this is still doable > only if you run the same version both in host and guests. And I for one > heavily use vservers, which are supposed to be replaced with lxc. Not being > able to run an arbitrary, possibly old[2], distribution in a guest -- or even > being able to move a live system into a container, without replacing its > init system, means it's a no-no for me.
* CVE 2013-4327 - Towards a world where even simple systems and firewalls are vulnerable! p.s. CVE-2013-4392, CVE-2013-4391 and I think I've missed out the really bad one to do with remote connection. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd _______________________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/441543.92540...@smtp118.mail.ir2.yahoo.com