systemd, as a service manager, is not actually a bad piece of software by itself. The fact it can act as both a service manager and an inetd(8) replacement is really cool. The unit file format is very nice and expressive. Defining mechanism and leaving policy to the administrator is a good design. Of course, nothing exists in a vacuum. I don’t like the encouragement to link daemons to libsystemd for better integrat ... ⌘ Read more
systemd, as a service manager, is not actually a bad piece of software by itself. The fact it can act as both a service manager and an inetd(8) replacement is really cool. The unit file format is very nice and expressive. Defining mechanism and leaving policy to the administrator is a good design. Of course, nothing exists in a vacuum. I don’t like the encouragement to link daemons to libsystemd for better integrat ... ⌘ Read more