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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The Tragedy Of systemd
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 11:48:47 +0100
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On 08/10/2024 11:39, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post; take it under advisement:
> 
>> This guy really knows what he’s talking about, over the whole sorry
>> systemd thing. You wonder why more people won’t listen to him. Wake up,
>> brainwashed sheeple!
>>
>> <https://papers.freebsd.org/2018/bsdcan/rice-the_tragedy_of_systemd/>
> 
> Downloaded the PDF, will look at it later.
> 
> I no longer think systemd is bad, to tell the truth.
> 
It is like a lot of software, ill thought out and ill advised and only 
there to stroke the ego of programmers.

But as with so many other pieces of code designed to be a Swiss army 
knife when all you wanted was a toothpick (Postscript, X windows spring 
to mind and indeed the socket library which was originally designed to 
support many other protocols than TCP/IP) if people keep fixing the bugs 
in the bits most used and documenting it far more than its designer 
bothered, it can eventually be made to work well *enough* for the 
limited uses to which it ends up being put...of course it will be 
bloated with all the features that no one ever uses, until a hacker 
discovers a way to break into systems using it...





-- 
The lifetime of any political organisation is about three years before 
its been subverted by the people it tried to warn you about.

Anon.