• tortina_original@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “Just avoid places that sysadmins and security guys frequent and get your opinions on systemd from memes and people running arch on home machine”. Great plan.

    Systemd is absolute and utter shit, especially from security perspective.

    Noone was asking security guys but package maintainers.

    My favorite systemd thing is booting up a box with 6 NICs where only 1 was configured during the initial setup. Second favorite is betting on whether it will hang on reboot/shutdown.

    Great tool, 10/10.

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      2 months ago

      I’ve gotten into quite a lot of systemd-related flame wars so far, and what strikes me is that I haven’t heard a single reason why systemd is good and should be used in favor of openrc/sysvinit/whatever. The only arguments I hear in favor of systemd, even from the its diehard defenders, are justifications why it’s not that bad. Not once have I heard someone advocate for systemd with reasoning that goes likes “Systemd is superior to legacy init systems because you can do X much easier” or “systemd is more secure because it’s resistant against Y attack vector”. It’s always “Linus says it’s allright” or “binary logfiles aren’t a problem, you can just get them from journald instead of reading the file”, or “everyone already uses it”.

      When it comes to online discourse, systemd doesn’t have advocates, it has apologists.

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      “Just avoid places that sysadmins and security guys frequent and get your opinions on systemd from memes and people running arch on home machine”. Great plan.

      So salty. Also twisting the things I said. I for sure like to visit phoronix, but I avoid the phoronix forum and advice was to avoid the forum.

      Noone was asking security guys but package maintainers.

      citation needed.

      Keep using Devuan if it makes you happy.

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        2 months ago

        Not really interested in debating with average “I run arch btw” user. We are not in the same universe, things I have to audit and maintain are not in the same universe with things you do, so having such a smart advice coming from you is not a surprise at all. I could, after all, just roll out my own distro if I am not happy, amirite?

        I run systemd machines because I don’t have a choice. It doesn’t make it any less of a shit. Simple as that.

        But hey, tell me some more about systemd, I am really new to all this 🤔

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          Out of curiosity, why exactly do you not have a choice in not running systemd? Is it company policy / are they clients’ machines?

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          Buddy lay off the Rick and Morty and take a shower

          “I’m not in the same universe as you!!!” Get a grip

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          Not really interested in debating with average “I run arch btw” user. We are not in the same universe, things I have to audit and maintain are not in the same universe with things you do

          Sir, this is the Linux memes sublemmy.