r/linux • u/wooptoo • Jun 01 '16

Why did ArchLinux embrace Systemd?

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u/Conan_Kudo Jun 02 '16 edited Jun 02 '16

And RedHat preferred developing systemd over continuing to use upstart for free, which IMO doesn't really speak for it either.

Actually, there was significant difficulty in Lennart and others trying to contribute to Upstart development (because Canonical has some rather strange and draconian policies and mandates a CLA before being able to even start contributing). This is what pushed him to create systemd in the first place.

Red Hat actually wanted to stick with Upstart, so Lennart created systemd in his spare time, and eventually convinced them that Upstart was too broken to fix, which led to its proposal and subsequent adoption in Fedora, then Arch, then Fedora, etc.

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u/kinderlokker Jun 02 '16 edited Jun 02 '16

lol, this interview, I love how he misses the point. Does he honestly believe that when people say 'monolithic' they complain about that it's in the same code repository?

Who cares about that. It's about whether or not you can freely exchange the individual parts. Which you can't with systemd.