Re:Linux distros without systemd
by AsyncAwait on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:24PM
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That's a valid concern, but it's worth noting that not every component systemd replaced, (ie consolekit), was actually being maintained, so arguably we're in a better situation now from that standpoint.
Isn't it now much more difficult to figure out if certain components are or are not maintained?
ConsoleKit was used in many commercial linux distributions and still wasn't maintained, now that its part of systemd and systemd is maintained, does that mean that every component of it is as well?
I do think that systemd is very useful but have concerns that they simply don't have the man power to maintain that broad feature set and scope they have set themselves.
What previously would be done in multiple different competing projects by different people with different ideas in different companies, is now done in a single code-base. I can imagine that innovation will be hindered that way, because systemd is not Linux. But maybe some day it will be, IDK. Currently it is just to big to scale that well to small systems though.