Poettering: Why systemd?

Posted Apr 29, 2011 20:13 UTC (Fri) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103)
In reply to: Poettering: Why systemd? by welinder
Parent article: Poettering: Why systemd?

sysvinit does not handle swaps. Some distribution supplied init hackery does, but not sysvinit itself.

And dude, of course this is biased, and I said so in one of the first paragraphs. It's my blog after all, not LWN or any other press product which should try to be neutral. I mean, are you really expecting me not point out the points I really believe in?

Poettering: Why systemd?

Posted Apr 30, 2011 14:15 UTC (Sat) by welinder (guest, #4699) [Link]

Well, dude yourself.

In other words, sysvinit handles swap via its plugin system,
typically (==always) in the form of shell scripts.

Don't get me wrong, I think systemd shows a lot of promise. But your
article makes it look like something for sale in a airline magazine.
You know, the extensible paint brush that makes it easy to paint your
bathroom ceiling while sipping tea in the swimming pool.