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#2Systemd is without doubt one of the most important items of software on a modern Linux today, except perhaps for the Linux kernel itself. It turned the mess of shell scripts and other crap into the rock-solid, foundational system services layer we enjoy nowadays. If we do ever get the year of the Linux Desktop, we will have to thank the authors of systemd for giving us a bedrock of delight to build upon.
Re: Systemd 252
#3Systemd is without doubt one of the most important items of software on a modern Linux today, except perhaps for the Linux kernel itself. It turned the mess of shell scripts and other crap into the rock-solid, foundational system services layer we enjoy nowadays. If we do ever get the year of the Linux Desktop, we will have to thank the authors of systemd for giving us a bedrock of delight to build upon.
I'm not a Linux expert, but I thought that systemd was generally hated?
Re: Systemd 252
#4Systemd is without doubt one of the most important items of software on a modern Linux today, except perhaps for the Linux kernel itself. It turned the mess of shell scripts and other crap into the rock-solid, foundational system services layer we enjoy nowadays. If we do ever get the year of the Linux Desktop, we will have to thank the authors of systemd for giving us a bedrock of delight to build upon.
I'm not a Linux expert, but I thought that systemd was generally hated?
Seems pretty great to me. Never understood the hate.
Re: Systemd 252
#5Systemd is without doubt one of the most important items of software on a modern Linux today, except perhaps for the Linux kernel itself. It turned the mess of shell scripts and other crap into the rock-solid, foundational system services layer we enjoy nowadays. If we do ever get the year of the Linux Desktop, we will have to thank the authors of systemd for giving us a bedrock of delight to build upon.
I'm not a Linux expert, but I thought that systemd was generally hated?
> bedrock of delight
It might be sarcasm?
Re: Systemd 252
#6Systemd is without doubt one of the most important items of software on a modern Linux today, except perhaps for the Linux kernel itself. It turned the mess of shell scripts and other crap into the rock-solid, foundational system services layer we enjoy nowadays. If we do ever get the year of the Linux Desktop, we will have to thank the authors of systemd for giving us a bedrock of delight to build upon.
I'm not a Linux expert, but I thought that systemd was generally hated?
I would say it really depends on the context!
Some reasons systemd is bad:
- Its a "big" for small docker containers (which is part of why a lot of people like Alpine Linux).
- It produces binary logs, which might not work with your workflow and is a kind of vendor lock-in if you don't script a binary-to-text script.
- the binaries are all a lot bigger in terms if SLOC and in terms of storage space than the solutions they replace. This makes auditing the code more of a chore and is a big argument against it in certain security environments.
- (my main gripe) systemd produces vendor lock-in from seemingly unrelated apps. A lot of packages which indirectly depend on a systemd functionality need to be patched to work on OpenRC Gentoo, for example.
Some arguments for systemd:
- systemd abstracts process management. This can be fantastic for scripting and security (again, context dependent)
- systemd by default kills services on log out (which is great for desktop - but can be an obstacle for servers). This is a good default behavior from a security perspective.
- systemd has some parallelization of init, making start up more predictable (because something falling over is less likely to nuke the whole procedure - again good for desktop)
- systemd provides a lot of tooling to stop you doing things the "wrong" way. For example, systemd-analyze-security provides configuration tips to harden your system
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In general, I would say that systemd is a very impressive tool and helped a lot of distributions standardise how they handle boot. I wish it did not impact downstream development the way it does though.
Re: Systemd 252
#7Systemd is without doubt one of the most important items of software on a modern Linux today, except perhaps for the Linux kernel itself. It turned the mess of shell scripts and other crap into the rock-solid, foundational system services layer we enjoy nowadays. If we do ever get the year of the Linux Desktop, we will have to thank the authors of systemd for giving us a bedrock of delight to build upon.
I'm not a Linux expert, but I thought that systemd was generally hated?
I've developed a distrust for anyone who hates on systemd in 2022, especially if their rationale is vague dogma like "it does more than 1 thing, it's not Unix-like!"
It's usually a signal that the person is not a practioner.
Systemd is the most important and well-developed Linux framework, besides the Linux kernel itself.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not a Linux expert, but I thought that systemd was generally hated?
I've developed a distrust for anyone who hates on systemd in 2022, especially if their rationale is vague dogma like "it does more than 1 thing, it's not Unix-like!" It's usually a signal that the person is not a practioner. Systemd is the most important and well-developed Linux framework, besides the Linux kernel itself.
Feigned certainty is often a indication of the opposite. In many cases people just absorb someone else's opinion on topics just in an effort to feel informed.
I'm not going to say I'm never guilty of it myself, but often asking even for the slightest bit of further explanation collapses that or otherwise just leads to repetition.
Re: Systemd 252
#9Systemd is without doubt one of the most important items of software on a modern Linux today, except perhaps for the Linux kernel itself. It turned the mess of shell scripts and other crap into the rock-solid, foundational system services layer we enjoy nowadays. If we do ever get the year of the Linux Desktop, we will have to thank the authors of systemd for giving us a bedrock of delight to build upon.
Alpine linux seems to be doing fine without systemd.
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