On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 01:50:26PM -0700, Rich Braun wrote: > The bottom line is it looks like I need to carve out a weekend, or a week, to > swap out the distro on which my home-server systems are built. Should I > embrace or toss out systemd when I choose this new platform?
Sigh. Options: 1. Choose a familiar distro and accept that systemd insanity will continue until at least the next major release. 2. Choose a familiar distro and rip out systemd, replacing it with something that works. (sysvinit works. runit will probably work. Close relatives of runit, including daemontools, will probably work. OpenRC has some problems but nothing unsolvable if you aren't ideologically committed to purity.) Know that upgrades and new package installs will probably pose issues, but minor ones since "write an init script" is well within anyone's capabilities. 3. Choose an unfamiliar distro with a sane init system. 4. Go to a non-Linux UNIX. Probably difficult for non-server machines. You might have luck with FreeBSD, or maybe one of the OpenSolaris derivatives. If you think that some familiar distro will consider moving away from systemd in the next major release, option 2 could be quite attractive. 3 and 4 are bigger risks. Any other people depend on these systems besides you? If it's just you, good backups and doing one system at a time might be the way to go. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
