Re: The Tragedy Of systemd

On 08/10/2024 11:39, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post; take it under advisement:
 

This guy really knows what he’s talking about, over the whole sorry
systemd thing. You wonder why more people won’t listen to him. Wake up,
brainwashed sheeple!
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<https://papers.freebsd.org/2018/bsdcan/rice-the_tragedy_of_systemd/>

 Downloaded the PDF, will look at it later.
 I no longer think systemd is bad, to tell the truth.
 

It is like a lot of software, ill thought out and ill advised and only there to stroke the ego of programmers.
But as with so many other pieces of code designed to be a Swiss army knife when all you wanted was a toothpick (Postscript, X windows spring to mind and indeed the socket library which was originally designed to support many other protocols than TCP/IP) if people keep fixing the bugs in the bits most used and documenting it far more than its designer bothered, it can eventually be made to work well *enough* for the limited uses to which it ends up being put...of course it will be bloated with all the features that no one ever uses, until a hacker discovers a way to break into systems using it...
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The lifetime of any political organisation is about three years before its been subverted by the people it tried to warn you about.
Anon.