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Systemd services (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...)

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On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
 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?

Yes, they conspired to invade my personal space with systemd ;-)
But as I wrote, the 80000-kilo gorilla named Amazon Web Services may
make that a non-issue for the future. It's looking "cloud"-ier every day.
(12 billion $ in 2016. Dwell on that number for a while.....)
And Poettering worked on pulseaudio so maybe someday I can learn to forgive
:-)

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Systemd services (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...) Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2017-04-22 06:00 +0200

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