This is a question that was bugging me for a while. Basically, it seems that systemd is really disliked by some individuals in the Linux world and basically universally frowned upon in the BSD world. I saw a thread on this very sub-forum discussing systemd and it got blocked, so it seems to be a taboo subject. And I really don't get why.
Some say it's bloated, as if all of its components are running as init (PID 1) - this is simply not true. The init part is small and only it does have PID 1 and the rest are running as different processes, with different PIDs. Others say that it violates the Unix philosophy - how and in what way? And others say that it's not portable so it is bad and I don't get why is so, because an init system is obviously tied to an OS, I doubt that you can take FreeBSD's init system, transplant it unmodified into DragonFly BSD and expect it to work.
As I see it, it's basically an init daemon + the various daemons controlled by it + some new utilities and new APIs. Essentially a new init + a whole framework built upon it. What is the problem with this approach, other than that it's a change?
I'm genuinely curious and I hope that the discussion will remain civil and will shed some light on this subject.
Some say it's bloated, as if all of its components are running as init (PID 1) - this is simply not true. The init part is small and only it does have PID 1 and the rest are running as different processes, with different PIDs. Others say that it violates the Unix philosophy - how and in what way? And others say that it's not portable so it is bad and I don't get why is so, because an init system is obviously tied to an OS, I doubt that you can take FreeBSD's init system, transplant it unmodified into DragonFly BSD and expect it to work.
As I see it, it's basically an init daemon + the various daemons controlled by it + some new utilities and new APIs. Essentially a new init + a whole framework built upon it. What is the problem with this approach, other than that it's a change?
I'm genuinely curious and I hope that the discussion will remain civil and will shed some light on this subject.
