4 Old Articles About Microsoft/IBM SystemD
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[Old] Systemd Free ☛ Systemd: The Biggest Fallacies by Jude C. Nelson
We are reproducing here a very good article we found on without-systemd.org which is on the dreaded blogspot. It took allowing three different sites to flash scripts so the simple text html document can be displayed. You would think we have grown out of such practices especially to criticize the dreaded init system red-hat and debian have imposed on us.
Jude C. Nelson after the initial publication of the article took good care to incorporate comments and corrections to it, so this is a live highly developed document. Please see the original as it may still progress, and as the objects mentioned are in development themselves. Nevertheless it is one of the best we have found.
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Devuan Family
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[Old] Linux Pro Magazine ☛ Distro Walk – Devuan » Linux Magazine
Long-time Linux users may remember a time when Debian was viewed as a collection of anarchists, with radical ideas about voting and decision-making. At times, Debian was even the lone dissenter among distributions about decisions made by the Free Software Foundation. However, over the years, Debian has developed its own hierarchy along the way to becoming the source for some two-thirds of active distributions. Today, the Debian derivative most reminiscent of early Debian is Devuan [1], which forked from Debian in 2014 over how decisions were made and the technical connotations of using systemd. Recently, two Devuan developers – fsmithred, who builds the live images and helps with support, and golinux, the community manager – took the time to recall Devuan's past and why their issues are still relevant today. Because Devuan lacks a formal hierarchy, they emphasize that their remarks are "unofficially official."
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Debian Family
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[Old] Debian ☛ Combatting revisionist history - Debian User Forums
At the end of the day, how one perceives this re-creation of existing userspace strongly influences one's reaction to systemd. There are plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons to be troubled by this re-invention of the wheel; they range from the philosophical and aesthetic, to the technical and mechanical, even the purely political and brutally practical.
And that's part of the problem when folks start to “debate” systemd. Very few folks have the chops to think about, much less talk about all of these areas simultaneously. As a result, the discussion becomes fractured and disjointed, in what is literally the textbook definition of bikeshedding. Suddenly, a talking head who's never written a line of code in his/her life offers up an authoritative-sounding-but-utterly-bogus opinion on systemd's maintainability. Add in the fact that folks on both sides (including Poettering himself) act as if name-calling is a perfectly good substitute for empirical evidence, and the “debate” becomes indistinguishable from white noise.
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[Old] DnE ☛ systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective
10 years ago, systemd was announced and swiftly rose to become one of the most persistently controversial and polarizing pieces of software in recent history, and especially in the GNU/Linux world. The quality and nature of debate has not improved in the least from the major flame wars around 2012-2014, and systemd still remains poorly understood and understudied from both a technical and social level despite paradoxically having disproportionate levels of attention focused on it.
I am writing this essay both for my own solace, so I can finally lay it to rest, but also with the hopes that my analysis can provide some context to what has been a decade-long farce, and not, as in Benno Rice’s now famous characterization, tragedy.
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