Re: What is systemd
@thames Depending on who you talk to, Systemd is either the spawn of Satan, or it's the salvation of software packagers. More specifically, it's a type of "init system".
Systemd is no longer a type of "init" system. As you say, it has forced its tentacles into every part of the OS, and is therefore a putative OS stack. Yes, it was introduced as an "init" system, but calling it that today is not an adequate description, and has misled many.
I agree with the greybeards that systemd breaks many unix design laws. It has grown from a single tool to take over the OS, in the same way that Windows grew from a windowing library to take over the OS. The code quality is also acknowledged to be poor, the size of the project has spiraled to over half a million lines and the functionality is opaque. What could possible go wrong ?
It is the manner of the systemd project which is bad, not systemd itself.
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