On: The Poetterisation of GNU/Linux (2013)

[nextos]

Yes, I know, and that's terrible. But SysV init was flawed by design as it didn't prevent e.g. race conditions between services.

[pmoriarty → nextos]

So systemd is not flawed by design?

[nextos → pmoriarty]

It is, but it doesn't suffer from some SysV issues.

It brings other issues of its own [1], and it is at odds with the Unix philosophy.

[1] http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/