Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
systemd is insanity. one would have hoped that deb and others would know better. sigh. It started as a replacement init system. I suspected it had jumped
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:44:57 +0900, Randy Bush said: the shark when it sprouted an entirely new DHCP and NTP service. And this was confirmed when I saw this:
"Leading up to this has been cursor rendering support, keyboard mapping support, screen renderer, DRM back-end, input interface, and dozens of other commits."
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwNzQ
When your init system is worrying about cursor rendering, you have truly fallen victim to severe feature bloat. I guess Jamie Zawinski was right: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail."
Actually - this kind of sums it all up: http://www.muylinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/funny-systemd.gif Good for a morning laugh. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra