Craig Sanders <[email protected]> writes:

> If systemd just did init, then nobody would give a damn, but it's
> absorbing way too many low-level system functions into itself - udev
> has been merged; it does logging; has half-arsed substitutes for ntpd,
> cron, automount, inetd, and network configuration.

Incidentally, upstart also 1. claimed to be compatible with inittab[0];
and 2. planned to replace at least cron and automount.

[0] in fact all it supported was one line -- it used a bit of sed to
determine the default runlevel.  All other entries in inittab were
silently ignored.

> For a while it will still be possible to hang on to sysvinit or
> upstart or whatever but eventually the effort required to keep
> everything working with dependencies breaking stuff all the time will
> be too great.

Speaking as someone who has suffered under upstart since 2008,
it's definitely not worth keeping -- at least not on servers and
embedded systems.  (I don't care about desktops.)

upstart is systemd with a smaller budget and less demagoguery.

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