[TUHS] Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register

[Greg A. Woods]

At Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:54:51 -0400, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'   The Register
> 
> I agree about the lack of choice,

Personally I don't see any lack of choice.  There are more than three
good BSD derived systems that together cover almost any imaginable set
of requirements.  The sheep will follow the herd though.....

> this may include automatically restarting dependent services when a
> daemon crashes and is restarted.

If your daemon's are crashing and in need of restarting so often that a
tool is needed to restart them then you have a myriad of other far more
pressing problems you should be dealing with first!

> being the only thing out there that solves some problem that the
> distro maintainers consider important (ie, that they get asked about
> frequently).

If it were so simple I would expect that claim to be more widely
advertised, yet we fall back on "it restarts daemons that crash".

Personally I think systemd trying to solve the rather high demands and
diverse requirements of mobile laptop systems and is trying to meet or
match MS Windows in this regard.  (personally I think macos has them
both beat by a country mile!)

It sure as heck isn't of any use in production server environments!

If it were more about servers then it would look more like SMF, or maybe
launchd, and it's code wouldn't look like it was written by a grade
school student.

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