On 02/20/2016 02:56 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi, > > I will add my two cents to the stream of comments. > > I think systemd is aimed at desktop users assuming that most Linux > users are also desktop users. It is also aiming at > unifying/streamlining Linux base commands so that users from different > flavours of Linux (aka distributions) use the same commands > irrespective of the distribution they use. > > If I am correct, this has been the dream of freedesktop.org. Note the > name, 'freedesktop'. So, the emphasis appears on desktop use. For such > users, CLI base commands are a second class of necessary tools but not > the primary tools, as the latter, are obviously GUI applications. > > The problem with systemd is the way it is made mandatory for unrelated > packages forcing distributions to adopt it. This policy smells of > corporate tactics which are totally out of place where free software > is involved. Now we have a take it or leave it attitude. > > Sysemd is not only an init system but far more than that. In my > opinion it has become more and more like a replacement of the entire > base system. The reason is the infamous streamlining of distributions > in favour of newbies who do not appreciate using an entirely different > operating system. > Edward,
I think that is a pretty good take on it. I come from a place where a GUI and hence the "Desktop" is a front end of convenience over or as an alternative to a CLI or scripted interface to a program. Systemd seems to be a GUI prioritization and magic show at the expense of the CLI and identifiable, separable and addressable underpinnings. The init was just the "foot in the door". It really is a whole different ball game and while I believe in the live and let live way of free and open source, where things survive or not on their merits, I have a whole lot of trouble with the systemd implementation onslaught with their "poison pill" approach. It is effectively killing alternate implementations and opportunities for GNU/Linux across what has become the majority of distributions with well contrived political shell games on the upper level distributions poisoning the lower tier derivatives. I strongly feel that the holdout out, no systemd developers, programmers and distributions are in the big long term picture really the only way forward and without them GNU/Linux would have mostly morphed into Systemd (GNU compliant)/Linux by now and the rest of the tree from which it grew would be dormant, dying or dead. Clarke _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
