Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports
2013/7/20 Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org>:
> Yes. This. I was a pretty avid syatemd "hater", but having used it for a
> solid 6 months, I can't imagine using anything else. I find myself
> installing systemd as one of the first things I do when I get a new install.
>
> If you're laying down systemd criticism - *try* systemd for a month.
Me too - I was never a "hater", I always loved the idea and concept of
logind and systemd, but I was sceptical about the benefits of e.g. the
journal and the dbus integration (and I also feared that too much
functionality would be moved into PID 1).
This has changed immediately after I started to use the features it
provides :P I now run rsyslog and the journal in parallel, while I
previously disabled it. I also just *love* the multiseat capacities
systemd provides, and the separation of user-written units and
distributor-provided systemd-units (you can still easily display
differences by using a systemd-tool).
And for developers of DEs, logind is just great ;-) (admittedly, I
always hated ConsoleKIt ^^)
Also, I don't find upstream very hostile - even the most stupid
questions were answered with patience, and Lennart even resembled some
of the concepts for me on IRC, when I asked some really silly
questions about cgroups and the systemd design decisions about a year
ago. The documentation is very good too (and now, since Google doesn
not consider "systemd" a typo anymore, you can also easily find it
online, if you don't want to install the manual pages)
I would recommend trying systemd in a VM to see what changes it brings
:-) (make sure sd is recent enough (>= 204))
Cheers,
Matthias
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