I run CentOS 6.5 and CentOS 7. I like CentOS 6.5 far better: much better GUI, and no useless systemd. Also, 6.5 boots faster.

Exactly. I have not seen one post that makes a strong argument for SystemD. Certainly nothing that would just justify such a radical change being forced on everybody.

As I understand it:

1) Systemd has a much slower shutdown, which means a reboot takes much longer.

2) Debian can be rebooted in 30 seconds. So even if boot was speeded up, it is a negligible advantage, and hardly justifies such a radical change.

3) Linux servers are not rebooted very often, making supposed advantage even more negligible.

4) If a service is critical, there should be a parallel server running it. Which make boot time even less meaningful.

5) According to this article at Distro Watch: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20141027#qa : boot times are not improved. That has been my experience as well.

If a service is all that critical, shouldn't you have parallel servers? And would that mean that there is not good reason to auto-restart a broken service?

> and then once in a full moon when a cosmic ray hits the process and kills it, systemd will just restart it.

What if it happens more than once in a blue moon? What if there is a serious problem, and it happens all the time?

I think most sysadmins would rather be notified, so they can fix the underlying problem, rather than have a broken process constantly restarted.

You have no concerns about the long term effects of Red Hat's hostile take over of Linux?

We may be seeing that last days of Linux as a free OS.

Soon enough, the only Linux that will be able to get upgrades will be Red Hat.

The community is not forming around systemd. Systemd is being rammed down our throats by one company.

> I'm still really confused about the jihad-level hatred it seems to engender in some people.

I believe that hatred has been well explained, why the confusion?

Just because something "works fine" for you is hardly justification for such a radical change.

And those "backups" are entirely useless to we meager citizens. Which is just the way the government wants it.

This is a government cover-up. This is the government not it's citizens to know what the government is up to.

This government wants to know all about what the citizens are doing, but does not want the citizens to know what the government is doing. It should be the other way around.

> it is good practice not to keep such information hanging

WTF!? Why not? The government certainly keeps information about US citizens "hanging around?"

Why the double standard?

> Hatch, in a speech at the corporate offices of Overstock.com in Salt Lake City, called for raising the cap on H-1B visas. "Our high-skilled worker shortage has become a crisis," said Hatch, who heads the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2838619/sen-hatch-calls-high-skilled-worker-shortage-a-crisis.html

I hate to advise that. It is far from an optimal solutions. But, NumbersUSA is about the only organization with any juice at all, that is opposing the visa worker scam.

Again, I have a lot of problems with NumbersUSA. They are very strongly republican, although repubs are just as bad about immigration as dems. Also, they much more concerned with illegal immigration from Mexico, than they are with issues of visa workers.

Still, as I said, they are probably the best organization out there.

You do not need a union for solidarity. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, and other professions have worthwhile organizations, without unions.

Are you kidding? This article is about the advancement of scientific thought. About putting mythology in it's place.

> Over here, we are constantly whining how crappy SystemD is, even though most of people have no idea what they are even talking about

Really? What makes you think so? Please provide evidence that all of the sysadmins who criticize systemd no idea what they are even talking about.

Seems to me some very knowledgeable sysadmins have been some very informed observations. But maybe I'm wrong. Please provide evidence to back up that assertion, and I will gladly eat my words.