Debian debates systemd

Posted Nov 6, 2013 0:44 UTC (Wed) by ras (subscriber, #33059)
Parent article: Debian debates systemd

Personally, I prefer they choose anything but systemd.

One of systemd's author primary arguments for systemd nothing else does what it does. If true, this is a problem - the same sort of problem we have with xorg. Everything should have alternates.

If Debian decides to use something other than systemd, it means there will be alternates for the magic it does cgroup's, udev and so on.

Debian debates systemd

Posted Nov 6, 2013 15:55 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I'm going to propose an alternate view, for core system features especially competition happens between different operating systems but is far less useful within an operating system unless you are talking about replacing an older subsystem with a newer one that includes compatibility hooks for the old way of doing things (like Wayland and xorg or systemd and sysvinit). There is a diffuse cost borne by everyone when application developers have to port their applications between the different infrastructures provided by different distributions and versions of what should be the same operating system. You don't get any internet points for being gratuitously different, it just makes things pointlessly complicated as they have to deal with all the variability rather than just having a standard way to do things.