<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Much of what I've seen against systemd were was either a) it was established by fiat instead of consensus, or b) monolithic and creeping absorption of functionality<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com" target="_blank">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Systemd is not just on RedHat style distributions – in fact RHEL itself is rather late in doing it. (You can still do RHEL6 if it bothers you that much
– it’s only on RHEL7 you see it.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You can rail against systemd but you’re unlikely to avoid using it over time because most of the popular and commercial distros have adopted it:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#Adoption_and_reception" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#Adoption_and_reception</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Personally I don’t find systemd as horrible as some would seem to suggest.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">One of the first things I learned in Management class in college is “People are resistant to change”. Most of the complaints I’ve seen about systemd boil
down to “Why change, init worked for years?”. Despite the fact there are many reasons given for the “Why change” many who complain simply disregard them.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 08, 2015 2:38 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> transam@VerySecureLinux.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] [Fwd: Advertising on <a href="http://ale.org" target="_blank">ale.org</a>] - OT MS vs Apple vs Linux/UNIX<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">It's got to be better than having systemd foistered on us by RedHat.<br>
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