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[-] lengau@midwest.social 7 points 10 months ago

I'm fine with systemd, but I really do get the feeling that it exists more because of Red Hat's NIH syndrome than anything that was actually bad about upstart.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nah, upstart actually sucked. I used it in an embedded project and getting things to start consistently was a nightmare. We had to put all kinds of sleeps in because there was no way to tell when something actually started, only when it was told to start (i.e. start on started x would start both at essentially the same time).

With systemd, that all went away. It magics away sockets and whatnot so things just work properly. Also, our startup time went way down because things could start just a bit earlier, and the config files were more intuitive.

Upstart was a poor solution in search of a problem, and items sysvinit was honestly better imo because sysvinit didn't hide little gotchas all over the place. Systemd is an over engineered solution to a real problem, but it works really well. Oh, and socket activation is magical.

That said, I still prefer the FreeBSD way, which is just a slightly fancy sysvinit. It works well, though it won't win any awards for fanciness. Maybe launchd, if it ever comes to FreeBSD (maybe it has? I've been OOTL since 12), will be cool, IDK.

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