Mastodawn

Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

The year is 2013 and I am hopping mad.

systemd is replacing my plaintext logs with a binary format and pumping steroids into init and it is laughing at me. The unix philosophy cries out: is this the end of Linux (or, as many are calling it, GNU plus Linux)?

The year is 2025 and I’m here to repent. Not only is systemd a wort

https://www.osnews.com/story/142741/systemd-has-been-a-complete-utter-unmitigated-success/

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Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success – OSnews

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🇨🇦 CowMan 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇲🇽2d ago

@osnews well, Thom, I certainly didn't get over it haha. Almost all of my servers are debian or debian based, so all systemd types ... but openrc on the laptop for my sanity. :)

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gunstick 1d ago

@osnews I still dislike the binary logs. Can't there be a file based interface? Maybe I write a fuse wrapper so you can grep on /var/log/fusesyslog/syslog* and it would do the needed stuff with journald.
Or does this exist somewhere?
It should be standard on all distris.