Oddbean new post about login | logout Devuan, Debian without systemd. At the rate we are going systemd will reach AGI first than chatgpt 😂 . https://www.devuan.org
What's the problem with systemd?
It breaks the Unix philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well. Systemd is doing more and more things and that is not good, it has reached a point where it is as or more important than the Linux kernel.
Exactly. Another concern is that systemd is a huge control vector over the Linux ecosystem for the big tech industrial complex: It's basically a bunch of RedHat (which is owned by IBM) and Microsoft employees who get to design all the standards and steer the course of development. This "gang" has a long history of pushing controversial changes without consensus from the broader open source community. Here's an interesting article that goes a bit more in depth about this: https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-real-motivation-behind-systemd.html The first blue box in this article from the same blog links to the full announcement of the Devuan fork on the Debian mailing list: https://unixdigest.com/articles/my-choice-of-operating-system.html I have read up on all of this a couple of months ago and it really kinda reminds me of the blocksize war and COINTELPRO...
Great contribution!
