[Discuss] About to rip out systemd and start over

[Richard Pieri]

On 5/21/2015 4:50 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
> The bottom line is it looks like I need to carve out a weekend, or a week, to
> swap out the distro on which my home-server systems are built. Should I
> embrace or toss out systemd when I choose this new platform?

A few aspects of systemd's philosophy are actually quite good for 
servers. The idea that a daemon's environment is consistent whether it's 
started manually or automatically is one of them. The actual 
implementation is terrible. It conceals the environment from users and 
administrators. This makes it difficult to diagnose problems. This is 
not conducive to server operations.

TL;DR: toss it.

I'm still partial to Debian. It's a good OS for servers. It is easy to 
eviscerate systemd with a few exceptions like MPIO, and migration to 
Devuan should be a painless process.

I'm still looking seriously at PC-BSD and TrueOS. I just got a new 
notebook and I'm going to dual-boot PC-BSD at some point in the coming 
weeks. If you're starting or restarting from scratch then I think that 
PC-BSD is worth considering.

-- 
Rich P.