...but experience slowness when using GNOME 3/Cinnamon.
At least for Gnome 3 if you used one of the earlier versions and felt that it was slow then you should really try the latest version, preferrably 3.14. It's night and day difference between them. It's still not going to be great if your hardware is too old or too slow, but it's going to be better than before.
Depends on the type of server. If it's for remote desktop then sure, then it's absolutely necessary. On a web server, probably not.
Some people dislike systemd because they can see where it is headed. Here is your sign.
Skimming that pdf is insightful. It promises magic unicorns from systemd, and raves on about using it to "build products" (what f*ing products and for whom?) and "the next generation OS". Such rhetoric is typical of GNOME-world megalomaniacs, those that force-fed us that new UI of early Gnome3. I distrust it immensely.
Tablets, phones, and quite a lot of embedded systems runs Linux.
Except OS X lacks half of the feature set. No containers for example.
Well, I'm a current Debian user, and I switched from testing to stable because of problems with systemd. OTOH, there's a good reason that it's called testing.
I have not tried Jessie recently, but I have used systemd for a long time now on production versions of both Fedora and CentOS. It's fine, I'm totally OK with it.
Still, any init system that marks problems with its logging system as "won't fix" is dubious. That the main logging system is binary just makes things much worse.
You didn't say what the problem was, but if it was that it uses a custom logging format then of course that's not going to be fixed. It's a feature, old-style text files is not suitable if you want to store the metadata that the journal supports.
So does expansions like having the "init system" include things like terminal manager, etc. It even makes me tempted to go back to Etch (yah, that's a rediculuous thing to suggest, as the current stable works fine without systemd).
Systemd is not an init system. To quote the systemd home page, "systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system." That includes an init system.
They also tend to be more unmaintained, like with owncloud.
You know how much bandwidth each Firefox update require?
But still not great.
"for variety of reasons". Who are we kidding? It's the fucking systemd by Redhat's Poettering.
Ah yes, systemd. Everything was all fine and well until it came around and screwed everything up. Oh, and it's just a conspiracy anyway to let Red Hat take control over Linux.
I give you 2.11BSD.
1980s Unix, fully up to date. Patches are still actively maintained, one once every year or so.
Completely systemd free, guaranteed!
All you need is a PDP-11, or a PDP-11 emulator.
Go ahead, install it. I dare you to install it!
All you need. No bloaty modern unnessessary cruft that replaces stuff _THAT WORKED_ just fine!
2.11BSD!
Halle freakin lujah!
There is no support for Flash...
There is no need for Flash anymore.
Why do you want to remove it? Seriously, what will you loose by using systemd? Is it performance? Is it stability? In what way will your systems run worse with systemd than without it?
I've used their "self-support" subscriptions at times when all I wanted was the bits.
According to the story you just commented on they apparently care quite a lot about cross-platform support since they want people to help them with it.
Well, except that in this case the entire story is that they want help making it work great on non-Gnome platforms.
UNIX is hot. It's more than hot. It's steaming. It's quicksilver lightning with a laserbeam kicker. -- Michael Jay Tucker
