I currently run Ubuntu 14.04, and see where part of systemd has already begun its encroachment on what *had* been a great Linux distro. My only actual full-on experience so far with systemd is trying to get Virtualbox guest additions installed on a CentOS7 vm... I've installed those additions countless times since I started using VBox, and I think I could almost do the install in my sleep.. Not so with CentOS7.. systemd bitches loudly with strange "errors" and when it tells me to use journalctl to see what
The main thing I noticed with Ubuntu 15.04 at work is that rather than startup becoming faster and more deterministic as claimed, it's actually slower and randomly fails due to what looks like some race condition, requiring me to reset the machine. So the general experience is "meh", plus annoyance that it's actually degraded the reliability of booting.
I also suffered from the "we won't allow you to boot if your fstab contains an unmountable filesystem". So I reformatted an ext4 filesystem as NTFS to accomplish some work task on Windows; this really shouldn't be a reason to refuse to start up. I know the justification for doing this, and I think it's as bogus as the first time I saw it. I want my systems to boot, not hang up on a technicality because the configuration or system wasn't "perfect". i.e. a bit of realism and pragmatism rather than absolutionist perfectionism--like we used to have when people like me wrote the init scripts.
``rather than startup becoming faster and more deterministic as claimed, it's actually slower and randomly fails due to what looks like some race condition''
My first experience with the full systemd-flavored openSUSE (as opposed to earlier systemd-lite 12.x) was the weird error I got after upgrading where the startup was failing (I think) because of an arbitrary 90s time limit on fscks. I have a 2TB backup disk attached to the system via an external, swappable USB drive bay and, apparently, Lennart and cr
What path have we chosen? (Score:4, Interesting)
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systemd is on the way to turning a sleek, efficient Linux distribution into one loaded with awesome bloatware.
And it looks like there is no stopping Poettering's ego now that it's been unleashed.
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I currently run Ubuntu 14.04, and see where part of systemd has already begun its encroachment on what *had* been a great Linux distro. My only actual full-on experience so far with systemd is trying to get Virtualbox guest additions installed on a CentOS7 vm... I've installed those additions countless times since I started using VBox, and I think I could almost do the install in my sleep.. Not so with CentOS7.. systemd bitches loudly with strange "errors" and when it tells me to use journalctl to see what
Re:What path have we chosen? (Score:4, Informative)
The main thing I noticed with Ubuntu 15.04 at work is that rather than startup becoming faster and more deterministic as claimed, it's actually slower and randomly fails due to what looks like some race condition, requiring me to reset the machine. So the general experience is "meh", plus annoyance that it's actually degraded the reliability of booting.
I also suffered from the "we won't allow you to boot if your fstab contains an unmountable filesystem". So I reformatted an ext4 filesystem as NTFS to accomplish some work task on Windows; this really shouldn't be a reason to refuse to start up. I know the justification for doing this, and I think it's as bogus as the first time I saw it. I want my systems to boot, not hang up on a technicality because the configuration or system wasn't "perfect". i.e. a bit of realism and pragmatism rather than absolutionist perfectionism--like we used to have when people like me wrote the init scripts.
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My first experience with the full systemd-flavored openSUSE (as opposed to earlier systemd-lite 12.x) was the weird error I got after upgrading where the startup was failing (I think) because of an arbitrary 90s time limit on fscks. I have a 2TB backup disk attached to the system via an external, swappable USB drive bay and, apparently, Lennart and cr
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Luckily, I still have time before the next mount-count-mandated fsck occurs