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by LinuxBender 2464 days ago
I am not comfortable with the feature creep that systemd is slowing bringing in. binfmt mount executing files based on a lookup, similar to windows assoc, intercepting gethostbyname(), this really feels like an attempt to shim old vulnerable windows concepts into linux. I am concerned that linux will not be recognizable in the near future and will be subject to bloat and obfuscation. What would it take to make this stop?

There are some things brought in that I like, but I don't believe systemd is required for them. Cgroups, LXC, to name a couple. Those make functional and operational sense to me.
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JohnFen 2464 days ago
> What would it take to make this stop?

That's a great question, and I have no answers.

I'm personally still trying to decide between moving all of my machines to Slackware or moving away from Linux entirely and to BSD. I'm currently leaning toward the latter.

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jakeogh 2464 days ago
Gentoo. We avoid these issues, you pick what ever init system you want. If it's not in the tree, add it to your overlay.
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ColanR 2464 days ago
> What would it take to make this stop?

Probably, vote with your time and focus. Use better distributions and port software to those distributions.

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