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On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:15:45 +0100 |
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Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> I liked systemd enough to want to switch my desktop to it before I |
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> managed to finish writing this. And holy crap, Duncan was right: systemd is |
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> *so* *fast* on an SSD, it's just not funny. It takes *3 seconds* after the |
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> kernel boots for me to get a login screen |
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It requires about just as long (3 secs) on my desktop machine *without* |
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systemd by just using my custom bash init script (no sysvinit or openrc either). |
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Furthermore, I use no SSD. |
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But there's also no login required so it's probably even faster -- and |
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there's also no long list of permanently running daemons as well. |
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(After a boot, ps ax shows a very sparse process list.) |
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For me, systemd is totally unnecessary, excessively burdensome, and |
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highly obfuscating to a complete control and understanding of my |
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system. |
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To each his own. If you want/need it, fine. But don't expect me, |
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or everyone else, to slavishly follow. |
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As has been more or less officially stated, systemd is an attempt to |
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provide a uniform and monolithic kernel-user space interface FOR THE |
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BENEFIT OF POTENTIAL (COMMERCIAL) SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS. RedHat wants |
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Linux to be just like MS Windows so that *they* (RedHat) can be just |
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like MS Windows. |
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Let RedHat leave (fork) the Linux community and go their own separate |
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way. |
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Maybe it's time to begin shifting a lot more attention to Gentoo/FreeBSD. |
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Frank Peters |
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