Systemd is a suite of basic building blocks

(brand.systemd.io)

15 points | by Bluestein 2 hours ago

4 comments

  • mxuribe 27 minutes ago
    This should be renamed to "Branding about..."...Because that seems to be the focus on this destination webpage...and not content specific to the underlying tech of systemd.
  • 0xbadcafebee 2 minutes ago
    [delayed]
  • jauntywundrkind 34 minutes ago
    This is just the homepage. Bah. I was hopeful this might be more! I would genuinely love for some posting on systemd that can actually talk to this.

    There's posts on using systemd for this or that, which are fine, but it feels like the pro-systemd camp doesn't find or make opportunities to rally, to express ths vision, where-as the anti-vision (as ever) sells itself, is a magnet that makes common party out of all dissent.

    • wmf 4 minutes ago
      Every now and then there's a blog post or presentation that combines several systemd features to show how the result is a better overall system. The All Systems Go conference https://all-systems-go.io/ is a good place to learn about systemd.
    • mxuribe 26 minutes ago
      @jauntywundrkind I was about reply...but then @McGlockenshire said it best! Cut off the subdomain, and you'll get more info. ;-)
    • Bluestein 15 minutes ago
      - https://systemd.io/ is full of documentation.-
    • McGlockenshire 28 minutes ago
      Yeah this is just a link to the branding page. I do appreciate the discussion of "system 500" at the bottom.

      But if you yank out the "brand" from the URL you'll get the actual site.

      • jauntywundrkind 7 minutes ago
        Sure. These sites are fine rallying points, absolutely.

        But they are also very old, and there's very few efforts I've seen to pitch and promote systemd. It's found and enjoyed by a lot of people (particularly those who had to deal with the tangled haphazard sprawl of cobbled together systems from the before times), it makes nicely visible what is happening on the system, integrates cgroups and good least capabilities practices.

        But it feels to me like there ought be more ongoing and vocal celebration of this, enjoyment of this. More rallying points that trumpet the wins, that page people in to how nicely this helps. I want to see more positive tech advocacy, is what I'm saying. This is a fine site, yes, with lots of discussion. I've enjoyed decades of Lennart blog posts too. But I wish there was more. I wish this submission was a blog post of the same title. A fresh take, a fresh spin, on such a worthy-of-treatment topic.

    • graemep 30 minutes ago
      The vision is controversial so a lot of advocates find it easier to promote as an init system.

      It tends to be the anti-systemd people who keep saying its not just an init system.