• Semperverus@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    SystemD itself was fine. Not great but better than what we had and I was happy with what it did.

    But then it started to sprawl and take over things it had no business doing.

    At this point I am no longer using the Linux kernel, I’m using the SystemD kernel, and as soon as Poettering feels like it he can simply sell the rights to SystemD to a big corpo like Microsoft once everything fully depends on it.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      There were pros and cons, I get the annoyance with the binary vs text files.
      But systemd booted faster than upstart, despite upstart was made for speed and systemd was made for being robust. The robustness of systemd however made it possible to make the ini process multithreaded and still work flawlessly, where old ini systems tend to have race conditions that make it near impossible.
      systemd is more robust, faster and more flexible, so how it wasn’t great remains a mystery to me?