BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017)

Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) by rawfan on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @06:07AM (#18541319)

Check out https://twitter.com/systemdsucks

My biggest personal grievance is how it handles DNS or rather how unpredictable and undocumented the process is. If everything fails, e.g., they actually hard coded usage of 8.8.8.8. Not sure if that’s still there or configurable. The handling of actual security reports and CVEs is rather bad and you can see many examples of that on Github.

I’m not anti systemd and overall I welcome lots of contributions Lennard made in the past (pulseaudio, e.g.). With systemd it’s just too much functionality in one place. Do we really need an NTP alternative in systemd?

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Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) by StevoNTF on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @02:32PM (#18545861)

for client machines looking for a very light alternative, perhaps. A project called Ntimed was started some time ago here at Network Time Foundation (nwtime.org), but the development stalled.

We'd really like to revive it, as there is demand for a lighter NTP client.

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Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) by bayindirh on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @03:21PM (#18546292)

What's wrong with chrony and ntpd? Just curious.

BTW, how can I contribute? I might get interested if I have time.

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Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) by bayindirh on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @06:23AM (#18541388)

Will check it, thanks.

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