Comment by egorfine
3 months ago
> 2. some people tend to look at tradition and consider it just better, without much reason. "unix systems in the 80ies had shell scripts to launch system services, that's what i shall do in the 2020ies".
And from that the systemd crowd tend to draw the following conclusion: if something was done a certain way for decades then it is bad and should be replaced.
Seeing how good systems is and remembering how messy it was to work with init scripts, runlevels and other stuff… i guess they were/are right
I have the opposite opinion. Init scripts (upstart!) were reliable, transparent, consistent and manageable.
Systemd is none of those things.
Having said that, I have to additionally admit that init scripts had to go at a certain point. It's hard to imagine a modern scripts-based PID1. Times have changed.