The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate
The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate
Posted Nov 13, 2014 18:53 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (guest, #20463)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate by bferrell
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate
> What init DOES do is to call a very flexible process management system
> that works correctly and doesn't have "odd corner cases" that will be
> fixed somewhere in the future.
> that works correctly and doesn't have "odd corner cases" that will be
> fixed somewhere in the future.
Bah. I didn't like SysV init when we changed to it (yes, I am one of those people whose first Linux distros had BSD init), and while it definitely is rather more flexible than BSD init, "works correctly" isn't what I would use to describe it. Rather: "A mess of shell scripts that work most of the time".
So systemd is a (another; I think I tried about all of them) replacement for SysV init, hopefully a better one. We'll see.
Init-systems are not a cause for flamewars anyway (unless you run emacs as init; then you need to be flamed).