On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:05:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Noel Torres <env...@rolamasao.org> writes: > > > It is a gut feeling also, and one that has been widely expresed by > > others, (with better and worse words) that Debian server admins will not > > be pleased with an init system which is bigger and does not use shell > > scripts to start system services. > > And many of us who actually *are* Debian server administrators have said > repeatedly that your gut is wrong, in the innumerable versions of this > conversation that have happened over the past two years. This idea that > systemd is somehow aimed at desktop environments and is not useful or a > good idea for servers is complete nonsense. I say this as someone who > barely uses desktops at all and who has been running large-scale server > environments professionally for twenty years, and who has had extensive > conversations on this topic with professional colleagues in environments > ranging from a hundred servers to hundreds of thousands.
Indeed and even FreeBSD acknowledges that they need a new init. I often see the oponents of sytemd touting the BSDs. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mri66Uz6-8Y#t=1643 John Hubbard talking about how an approach like systemd is needed on FreeBSD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141127002808.GA6801@stephen-desktop
