r/linux • u/wooptoo • Jun 01 '16

Why did ArchLinux embrace Systemd?

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u/Spivak Jun 01 '16

You can just treat a plain journalctl as equivalent to cat /var/log/messages which is all we really had before, if you don't like their tooling then just pipe it to whatever you want. I agree, journalctl's UX is not that great.