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Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd -- BSDCan 2018

BSDCan · 25.5K views · 2018-08-06 · 32:30

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Overview

Benno Rice's BSDCan 2018 talk on why systemd exists and what it got right and wrong. It traces the history of Unix init and why Linux distributions adopted it, while asking what the BSDs should learn.

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HN recommends it as a balanced, eloquent take on the systemd debate that even skeptics find persuasive.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2018–2024

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Operating systems & kernelsLinux & open-source ecosystems
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kbumsik · 2019-10 · Recommendation

> After listening to the BSD Canada talk on systemd and BSD For someone who don't know, here is the video "The tragedy of systemd". This is a really good talk. [VIDEO]

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znpy · 2019-09 · Recommendation

A nice talk that might change your view of the subject is the following: [VIDEO] . It's a video from BSDCan, the Canadian BSD conference. Even some BSD people are realizing that systemd has a good point to exist!

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sjwright · 2019-05 · Recommendation

One of the better videos on this subject: [VIDEO] BSDCan 2018—Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd "systemd is, to put it mildly, controversial. Depending on who you ask it's either a complete violation of the UNIX philosophy, a bloated pile of bugs, a complete violation of the elegant simplicity it replaced or, it most cases, some or all of the above. So why have so many Linux distributions taken to it? Is it as bad as people say?

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