It really gives me mixed feelings about systemd. On one hand, enough smart people see the sense in it that I am willing to try it. On the other hand, I don’t like to support projects with these kind of developer issues. That’s the reason I stopped using Gnome, and that is the reason I have been holding off on trying systemd.
Regardless of systemd’s complexity, it solves a very important problem for servers and scalability–reliable, faster bootup. Once you’ve suffered through machines that take 10 minutes to boot because of all the calls to sleep() just so that the services start in the right order, you’ll be thrilled to have more smarts in this part of the system.
I just hope that the developers working on it and against it can make pragmatic compromises so that the users can ultimately gain a lot from the effort, instead of acting in the terribly unprofessional manners outlined in the article.
I the issue is the approach of some leading Systemd developers and not the way this system implements init over another. I think that battle is already won my ‘systemd’ at this point.
In the Debian debate about init systems, it looks like the people afraid by systemd complexity could have been right.
It really gives me mixed feelings about
systemd. On one hand, enough smart people see the sense in it that I am willing to try it. On the other hand, I don’t like to support projects with these kind of developer issues. That’s the reason I stopped using Gnome, and that is the reason I have been holding off on tryingsystemd.Stuff like this makes me very concerned:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYxMTI
Regardless of systemd’s complexity, it solves a very important problem for servers and scalability–reliable, faster bootup. Once you’ve suffered through machines that take 10 minutes to boot because of all the calls to sleep() just so that the services start in the right order, you’ll be thrilled to have more smarts in this part of the system.
I just hope that the developers working on it and against it can make pragmatic compromises so that the users can ultimately gain a lot from the effort, instead of acting in the terribly unprofessional manners outlined in the article.
I the issue is the approach of some leading Systemd developers and not the way this system implements init over another. I think that battle is already won my ‘systemd’ at this point.
lkml.org is down - I wonder if this is systemd related?