#systemdont

[randomoverwatt]

Freedom

I haven't found a single program that I use on Debian (a linux-based operating system that drank the systemd kool-aid) that isn't available on FreeBSD (a UNIX-based operating system that systemd can't run on).

The only things holding me back at the moment are: (1) deciding on which available hard drives to use in my box, (2) (a) some of my ephemera are not backed up locally and (b) the drive they're on is slowly failing in a spectacular manner

How spectacular? Just shy of blue smoke. Reading data at about ten megabytes per minute, and the number of reallocated blocks is going up at a measureable rate. My kern.log is approaching ten thousand lines in under a day of uptime as I try to make the backup that I thought about doing two months ago. Let's see who wins the race...

[randomoverwatt]

Nerd rage

After decades of delivering a rock solid and learnable operating system, the debian project started down the systemd path. Bye bye sanity. In version 7, systemd was optional, in version 8, it was the default (but avoidable by clever monkeys). It's unclear if version 9 (due to be released later this year) will allow life without systemd.

So, if I want to have an operating system with security updates, I may have to go distibution hopping to find one that supports all the software I use regularly but doesn't require systemd. I really don't want to jump to OpenBSD. While OpenBSD has a very secure operating system kernel, its userland system tools are, on average, of shockingly lesser quality than the GNU tools. But still better than systemd's tools.