On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
Seems to me, this has been a very rational discussion,
Hardly. The discussion so far has been weighted very heavily on the side of Dana Carvey's "Grumpy Old Man"-style whining. "That's the way it was and we liked it!". The people that like systemd (like myself) have wisely learned that the people that hate systemd, hate it mostly because it's different from what came before and don't want to change. There's no way to argue rationally with that.
confined to one very identifiable thread,
Thank goodness!
containing what at least this reader finds very useful (operational impacts of systemd in server-side environments, and what alternatives people are looking at).
Just because it's useful, doesn't mean that it isn't off-topic for NANOG. At least until Cisco starts using systemd as pid 1 in IOS XE I suppose...
If you're not interested, you have a delete key. Please use it, and don't turn this into a flame war.
Sure, I have a delete key, but it'd still be better if people moved this discussion somewhere more appropriate. -- Jeff Ollie