It's really good to read the comments and see people point of view on this topic. I totally agree RC system is really good and stable, easy and extensible. The main concern I have here is performance. Starting a system is really slow. Boot to X (with simple xdm) is minimum 25 secs and I just feel there's something to do to cut this delay.
---------------------------------------- > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:33:30 -0800 > From: list_free...@bluerosetech.com > To: fjwc...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: libinit idea > CC: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > On 2/23/2014 10:31 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: >> The main developer for systemd is very anti-portability and anti-!Linux. He >> had actively rejected patches that made his projects work on non-Linux >> systems. In order to port systemd to a non-Linux system, he wants you to >> first implement every Linux feature that systemd uses. >> >> systemd is a non-starter, and not with considering. > > It's pretty clear Lennart Poettering failed history. > > Perhaps the best examples of why systemd is an anti-pattern is this: > systemd stores logs in a binary journal. After the Linux zealots have > spent about two decades using binary system data storage as one of the > reasons Windows sucks, that strikes me as particularly ironic. > > The RC system we have is proof you do not need anything more than bourne > and a respectable amount of intelligence to design a good init system. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
