[SOLVED] Need light-weight Debian based distro with best resource utilisation
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Because Antergos is just an installer for Arch to make it faster to install. Arch itself defaults to systemd, so therefore so does Antergos.
SystemD, while there are definitely issues, has won the init war. While there will be holdouts, it gets harder and harder to avoid it every day. Simply put, almost every company that actually has engineers working on linux and thus are the major developers of various gnu/linux products has decided to go with SystemD, so while I find there's a lot of things wrong with SystemD, I'm unwilling to limit my usage to systemD-free distros (which leaves basically antix and Slackware, devuan isn't yet considered release-worthy), or do the work to remove SystemD from what I do use.
Last edited by Timothy Miller; 08-05-2016 at 05:46 PM.
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I'm literally a newborn to this systemd and non-systemd discussion, can anyone give a set of pros and cons to help me out here join in !!!!!
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I'm DRASTICALLY dumbing this down, but there's literally DOZENS of threads about systemD on these boards, so if you want any in depth information, look up any of those.
Pro's of SystemD
All "Enterprise" Linux run it, so if you want to get a job being a linux sysadmin for a major company, you're probably going to need it.
Bit faster than SysV Init at booting
Con's
Logging is stored in binary, so if there's an issue, you can't just boot from a USB and open in a text editor to see what went wrong (this is my biggest gripe against it)
Doesn't follor the Unix philosophy (do 1 thing and do it well). SystemD basically takes over not just booting, but managment of many services and programs also.
In the end, the systemd debate is sure to spark quite a bit of vitriol on both sides (which we cannot have in threads, the mods got tired of threads degrading into SystemD mud slinging so will close any thread that starts to degrade to that). While I technically prefer SysV init, I'm willing to accept that as a linux sysadmin for a company who uses Red Hat products, I need to deal with my dislike and accept it, which I have. I even run it on all my home systems, and THUS FAR, have nothing in "real world" cases to say against it, it's worked very well for me, and it is a little quicker at booting.
Last edited by Timothy Miller; 08-05-2016 at 11:08 PM.
I'm literally a newborn to this systemd and non-systemd discussion, can anyone give a set of pros and cons to help me out here join in !!!!!
@jamison2000e
@Timothy Miller
@un1x
Anyone !!!!!!!!!
The most of them debating it are not developers, the ones who decided to GO with systemD! Computers are faster nowadays so need to be smarter &c.
For the ones debating, it's mostly a philosophy thing like the wind or opinions...
Last edited by jamison20000e; 08-06-2016 at 07:47 AM.
Reason: did not pay attention when spell checker flagged systemD so changed D to S, :doh: now back
I run a lap\desktop and prefer what my favorite distros give me... my T20 (which is a correction to post #23 where I accidently put T420 (because I'm posting from one right now)) CLI only runs with systemD well too.
Last edited by jamison20000e; 08-06-2016 at 12:10 PM.
Reason: one too many parentheses ie )
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Can you tell me how I can experience the change of a systemd present/absent performance/working comparison in Oses, I highly doubt just using them will show any difference, but a guess is perform some specific task to check; if you please shed some light !!!!
Distribution: Windows 10, Debian and derivatives, Mint, Whatever I find new and interesting
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@jamison20000e , @Timothy Miller
Can you tell me how I can experience the change of a systemd present/absent performance/working comparison in Oses, I highly doubt just using them will show any difference, but a guess is perform some specific task to check; if you please shed some light !!!!
Install virtualbox on whatever you like, create 2 instances. On 1 install basic Debian (systemd) and the other Slackware (sysV init). Learn how to work on, manage, modify the init of both, and that's better than any reading of any article we could point you to.
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Put your "comments" on systemd here: 
IMHO
