The "Devuan" Debian fork and the fuss about systemd

Posted Dec 3, 2014 10:15 UTC (Wed) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: The "Devuan" Debian fork and the fuss about systemd by cesarb
Parent article: The "Devuan" Debian fork

> Because a complete NTP daemon disciplines the clock, so not only the time is correct, but also the frequency is correct, and because a complete NTP daemon has a selection algorithm which compares the time returned from all the servers and discards falsetickers, instead of trusting the first server which answers.

You do have a small point there, which is why I said "NTP server daemon". We just need a smarter client. I'm not sure if it's important enough for me though. What we need is something smarter than timesyncd but not as complicated as ntpd. Actually disciplining the clock is not hard, might fix that myself if it bugs me enough.

> I will not use systemd-timesyncd on any of my systems until it becomes more than a dumb SNTP client. In the meantime, I'll use chrony or ntpd.

Chrony looks interesting but appears to solve a different problem. It's still a server though.