F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

Frantisek Hanzlik franta at hanzlici.cz
Sun May 3 19:36:14 UTC 2015


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
>     On Sun, 3 May 2015 15:45:36 +0100
>     Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> 
>     > Umm, because everyone is happy with systemd? :-)
> 
>     Not the slightest possibility that is true. I have a more
>     likely reason for the universal adoption of systemd:
> 
>     http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/selection.html
> 
> 
> That explanation is even less likely.  Very little of Linux enterprise
> support has anything to do with poor documentation or bugs (it is not like
> sysvinit had any real documentation).  A lot of it has to do with high
> level guidance,  roadmaps, prioritization of features etc.   This type of
> support won't scale well on a single project perhaps but it works fine on
> a operating system with thousands of components.  
> 
> Rahul

Rahul, I'm not sure what you're talking about, sorry for my narrow
english knowledge.
Despite of that, although I know that systemd fans talk how is its
documentations exhaustive (best/ideal/...), it isn't truth. IMO there
is lot of systemd doc/man files, but it is even not complete and far
from ideal - as opposed to other init systems, which are much simpler
and documented in detail. To be honest, systemd (and its docs) is
unbaked monster, which has nothing to do with modern Linux
(my opinion).
-- 
TIA, Franta Hanzlik



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