Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

["T.J. Duchene" <t.j.duchene@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:

That's easy for you to say, since you are obviously a programmer. The rest of us may never have programmed anything, and C just looks like some foreign language --which it is!

That's very true, Doug. I have nothing but sympathy for the non-programmer, honestly.  You are basically at the mercy of people like myself, and I am honestly sorry that that is the case.  I wish it did not require a special skill set.  In our defense, however, we have worked long and hard in our craft as you have in yours.  

 

What we would like is stability, and until Poettering started messing with Linux, we pretty much had it--at least in any given distro.

That's where we part in agreement.  You can't blame Poettering for messing with Linux.  The distributor makers looked at systemd and realized that it would make things easier for them.  Systemd fills a distributor's need.  You don't have to like it, but only Debian is responsible for Debian.  Poettering had no input in that decision, so you should not blame him for it. 

Frankly, at no point have I seen Linux become more "unstable"  because of systemd.  In my experience, Linux as an operating system is not horribly stable when you use the bleeding edge releases.  It's much better than Windows most of the time, but I would not use even a stable Linux in a nuclear reactor.   Linux is not designed for extreme stability.

T.J.