Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd -- BSDCan 2018

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a balanced, eloquent take on the systemd debate that even skeptics find persuasive.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

BSDCan

Topic

systemd and init systems

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• >Personally, I never found startup time to be much of a problem, on any OS. Well, start up problem is a matter of convenience, it's not a fatal problem, but I just like that my laptop with arch+systemd+systemd-boot starts instantly (3 seconds + 6 seconds …

• One of the better videos on this subject: [VIDEO] BSDCan 2018—Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd "systemd is, to put it mildly, controversial. Depending on who you ask it's either a complete violation of the UNIX philosophy, a bloated pile of bugs, a complete violation …

• A nice talk that might change your view of the subject is the following: [VIDEO] . It's a video from BSDCan, the Canadian BSD conference. Even some BSD people are realizing that systemd has a good point to exist!