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by strictfp 1487 days ago
I'm not opposed to the idea of a more intelligent init system, but systemd is doing waaaay to much. One example; it messed up hostname resolution on my lan by blackholing DNS traffic for single-name queries. And you cannot turn their dns component off.

Upstart would have been a better alternative.
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johnny22 1487 days ago
> And you cannot turn their dns component off.

Of course you can turn it off. Fedora didn't even use resolved until 2 or 3 releases ago and they were one of the first major (non rolling) distro to adopt systemd.

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strictfp 1487 days ago
Maybe nowadays, but when it came to Ubuntu back in the day it was enabled by default and couldn't be turned off because it was being used early in the boot cycle when other resolvers hadn't booted yet. Talk about bad design decisions...
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BenjiWiebe 1487 days ago
Wouldn't that be Ubuntu's fault?

Speaking of which, there are some other things that Ubuntu does that get my blood pressure up, such as not having a reliable way to do truly unattended upgrades.

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