Fwd: Systemd services (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...)
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 4:13 AM, Nicholas Geovanis
<nickgeovanis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Like numerous linux users I have sometimes lamented coming to terms with
> systemd. My belief is that it's a well-written collection of software which
> is somewhat over-engineered. It fills a need, sure, though I've managed to
> live and work without it for a long time (been using linux since 1994). And
> who am I to question Torvalds and Co. on the subject of its suitability for
> linux and the data center?
Have Linus and Lennart come to a meeting of minds or something?
So I looked up "Torvalds systemd" and found a slashdot Q/A article with
Torvalds in which someone asked him about systemd.
Interesting.
> So the other day I was on a recently-built Amazon AWS EC2 instance, running
> one of the AWS-branded linux AMIs, fixing things in /etc/init.d. Thinking
> about how AWS might rule the world someday, since they already hold about
> 35-40% of the public cloud
> (http://www.geekwire.com/2017/cloud-report-card-amazon-web-services-12b-juggernaut-microsoft-google-gaining/).
> Then I had one of those "Duh!" moments: There must be on-the-order-of a
> million of linux instances on the planet which are _not_ running systemd, as
> AWS's own linux AMIs do not by default.
>
> It seems to me that this data point has been completely ignored in the
> years-long discussions about systemd's merits, flaws and suitability.
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 03:17:00PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
>> > Note: systemd is not for end-users, it is for system administrator and
>> > distribution authors.
>>
>> {systemctl,journalctl,etc.} --user beg to differ.
>>
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