I think it's matter of presentation and the actual implementation

Posted Nov 25, 2011 10:24 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: I think it's matter of presentation and the actual implementation by khim
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing

It introduces totally new world and it's design does not take in the consideration the existing practice at all.

I don't think that is actually entirely fair.

For one, what systemd does is only a »totally new world« if you disregard the experience gained with Apple's launchd, which pioneered many of the ideas that we now find in systemd and which, on the whole, do make sense from a technical point of view. To some people this seems to come across as an evil conspiracy to make Linux »more like MacOS«, but I believe this is more due to the fact that the hackers at Apple appear to be on to something good here.

Also, it is worth bearing in mind that many of the things systemd does are traditionally provided by different pieces of infrastructure (SysV init, inetd, cron, ), not because these were designed that way from the start but because they arose at various points in the history of Unix and were introduced by different groups of people. It does seem worthwhile to me to try and construct a general framework for these tasks in the interest of simplicity, better configurability, and standardisation.