Which leads me to ask - those of you running server farms - what distros are popular these days, for server-side operations? We've been running Debian like forever (by way of Solaris and redhat) - but this systemd thing is making me rethink things. Seems like an awful lot of folks are now designing for the desktop, and it might be time to migrate to a BSD or Solaris derivative. What are others doing?
to be honest, i like systemd. nobody else has really stepped up to the bat to fix issues of existing init systems and tying interoperabilty into a common bus.
Perhaps because folks that understand more about security than you (and me for sure so I'm not picking on you) think thats a bad idea? If something is a bad idea then smart folks dont rush out (generally) to build it ... thus the no one stepping up to bat "problem" thats not really a problem - its a good thing to not have problems solved improperly. Perhaps because when you say/hear things like "tying interoperabilty into a common bus" you think thats a good idea. Others hear those same words and think: vendor lock-in single point of failure lack of choice The binary logging thing is a non-starter for a lot of folks. dbus ? On a server ? Do we really need that ? Lets keep servers reliable - less code not more (no bugs in unwritten code). Shouldnt the amount of code running as PID 1 be kept to an absolute minimum? Bad architecture decisions dont suddenly become good ones even if they solve other problems along the way or make some things better or faster.