On 03/27/2013 01:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Jake Margason <jmargason...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I ran away from Arch last year to get away from all this systemd stuff. I >> hope that you guys will continue to support openrc for as long as possible. > > Don't do top posting, please. > >> One question though. why does everyone seem to be migrating towards systemd? >> How is it superior? is openrc just a dead project is that why? > > That's three questions ;) > > 1. "why does everyone seem to be migrating towards systemd?" > > Not everyone is migrating towards systemd (yet), but the trend is > certainly that more and more distros switch to it or at least offer it > as a first class alternative to whatever other init system they use. > As for why, I think it's for two reasons: a) it works, b) upstream > udev merged with systemd, and most distros just follow upstream. > > 2. "How is it superior?" > > Well, that's the pickle. If you are like me, then systemd it's > superior to OpenRC basically in every single way. If you are one of > the people that thinks that something called "the UNIX way" actually > exists, or that "Linux/Gentoo is about choice", or that we should care > about our *BSD cousins keeping up with us, then systemd is far > inferior. > > From a technical point of view (the quality of the code and the time > it takes to fix bugs), I believe everyone (even Lennart's most fervent > detractors) will agree that systemd is a superb piece of software. The > problem is the philosophy behind it; if you agree with said > philosophy, systemd is great. Otherwise, is a new fangled beast which > goes against everything that UNIX stands for (whatever that means), "a > solution for a problem no one has", and "fixing something that wasn't > broken". > > 3. "is openrc just a dead project is that why?" > > Is not dead; it has new releases and stuff. Just not many features are > implemented to it, and it has some pretty awkward bugs, some of them > years old, like not being able to start services in parallel. > > It's obviously better that SysV. From my point of view, that's not enough. > > Hope it helps. > > Regards. >
A nice, reasonably even-handed writeup. :)
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