Didn't you see the wink at the end of that sentence?

Such a wink usually means to not to take what was said too seriously, as in to not flip completely out over it. So it's probably okay to calm down a bit.

If you really want a huge systemd debate, there are some here and here.

While maybe grammatically correct, I would not read so much certainty into it.

Of course, only Pat knows what he was thinking when he typed that sentence, but I take it more in the spirit of, "We can cross that bridge when we come to it.", not to indicate that he has any particular plans to do so.

On the other hand, I am sure that Pat is keeping up with his and our options with regard to systemd, if only because it will cerainly affect Slackware if it continues its anticipated path... lots of "if"s in that sentence!

It's largely irrelevant, if Linux "desktop environment" developers create hard dependencies on 0pointer software, because almost nobody uses their software. What the KWin developer likes and what he likes not and if he's forced to switch distributions or whatever, who the f* cares?

I don't see Apache, BIND, PHP, MySQL, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Samba developers (their software is in wide-spread use) switch to systemd anytime soon. That's good enough for me.

Additionally I don't care the least for what these hundreds of distributions I never heard of do. They come and go, I'm just not interested. Your "the others do it too, you must comply" FUD strategy doesn't work here.

For those who claim that systemd is well documented, fine. I guess there are those who are contend with one liners documentation. The coding (formatting) is bad and that is a fact go read the source and you will know what i'm talking about.

I am speaking from experience. I ran systemd on fedora for 2 months and it kept freezing for no good reasons. I have to reboot my system to recover. I nvr have this problem when I run slackware on the same system.

As for those who doesn't know how crappy systemd is, check out the zero day exploits here. To date, still no patch available.

I am not making a baseless bias claim against it. I gave up slackware for fedora, briefly. Yes, I was enticed by the slightly faster boot time as well as the integration with plymouth. but after 2 months, no. just NO. I am sticking with slackware for good. It may not have the red herring that other distros have, but at least it is a highly stable and usable system. that's what counts in the end.

Looking at the way they structure systemd (if there's any at all) i think they will have a very very VERY hard time fixing all the bugs in this frankenstein.

and just for the record, Poettering would prefer not to be told that his doing a bad job.

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This thread's reading is becoming increasingly boring, as expected and as occurred with its ancestors.

And in my opinion it won't influence Pat's decisions about future of Slackware.

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Of course, there are no real news to discuss regarding this topic.

Perhaps it is, but i still choose to believe that our opinions matter.

When someone names that which must not be named there is no other outcome. Best to paint it pink and stick a SEP field generator right on top of it.

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I think there's a soon farewell to both old init scripts and X11. As a desktop user I don't hate systemd. It actually makes automatic use out of all this crap we have in the kernel like cgroups so you should get better priority on your running processes.

Wayland should also be a lot better than X, but I'm slightly taken back by the fact that we're replacing the legendary 25 year old X Window System with something called WAYLAND. What does that even mean? Wayland. No one could come up with a better name?

It's relevant for the people who want to use Linux as their desktop now and in the future.

I was responding to your claim that:

Not trying to convert anyone here. I'd be suprised if you hadn't heard of RHEL and its derivates CentOS, Scientific Linux, Oracle Linux... and SUSE Linux Enterprise though.

Well obviously there isn't need for every kind of software to depend on systemd. In the server side containerization software can and do take use of systemd functionality though and they are widely used.

...and you concluded that this had anything to do with systemd how?

According to the bug reports, three out of the four exploits only affect Fedora 17 or older that has reached end of life and the only one that affected the still maintained version of Fedora has been fixed. Nice try at FUD though.

So what makes it bad?

why don't you ask google? I'm not the first and definitely not going to be the last.

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When a ton of people are telling you that systemd has BIG issues, perhaps you should really look inwards and ask yourself why (I'm assuming that you are somehow related to the development of systemd), instead of disregarding all criticism and labeling naysayers as lunatic or uncivilised.

The BDFL continues to chart a true course for Slackware. Pat never lets us down; I trust him.

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I'm going to keep following this thread this system D thing gets people all fired up