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I came here to learn about a technical issue that HN felt worthy of the front page, because I'm not certain how I feel about systemd yet. I ended up learning wh
by floatingatoll 9y ago
I came here to learn about a technical issue that HN felt worthy of the front page, because I'm not certain how I feel about systemd yet. I ended up learning what a bunch of people feel about systemd, but nothing about whether this is a reasonable divide strategy, or whether anyone has any arguments to counter his, or .. anything whatsoever. I'm glad the thread benefited the wellness of the community by providing an outlet for unresolved rage, but y'all missed a key opportunity here to consider a new semantic about the Kernel-Init(Systemd) interaction before it's fixed into stone by commits or whatever.
- dpark 9y agoWas the title different when you clicked on this story? If you clicked a story about how Linus no longer trusts init and expected some deep discussion of init/kernel separation, I kind of feel like you were destined to be disappointed. The topic was clearly Linus's distrust of init, not architectural purity.
- fao_ 9y agoThe suckless community maintains a page about SystemD's flaws (Why it "sucks"), and what they think an init system should do, and what it shouldn't. It's a relatively concise summary of the position of the people opposed to SystemD: http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd So far I haven't found a page like this by the SystemD advocates. I haven't really found much of an argument by them, to be quite honest. It would be nice to hear of one, of course.