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Ask HN: Good things about systemd. How has it helped you?
Systemd has a terrible reputation. But it cannot be all bad, right? So I was wondering, how as it helped you? Where has it brought an improvement for you?
I start: service files are usually simpler, shorter, clearer than init.d/ scripts when you just want to lunch a program. Automatic restarts on failures, are very nice.
- cperciva 11y agoSo I was wondering, how as it helped you? Maybe not the answer you're looking for, but... it has brought a lot of new users to FreeBSD.
- alexandrerond 11y ago:) Not what I was expecting but a good side of systemd nevertheless
- sunseb 11y agoI moved to Gentoo (OpenRC), then to FreeBSD. :-/
- JdeBP 11y ago> simpler, shorter, clearer than init.d/ scripts [...] Automatic restarts on failures For those of us who've had both of these things since around the turn of the century, this improvement was not brought by systemd; so it hasn't helped in this particular regard at all. (-: