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oblio on June 7, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button

> Redhat? Company that is currently infiltrating every Linux distro with systemd bloatware? No, thanks.

Perspective is everything.

For me it's:

> Redhat? The company that managed to standardize the init system across distributions, thereby making it trivial to create robust system services for Linux?

kevin_b_er on June 7, 2018 [–]

It is not the init system replacement. It is the cruft around it, like systemd-resolved. Please avoid motte and bailey arguments.

oblio on June 7, 2018 | [–]

Today I Learned motte and bailey.

And why is the rest cruft? Are the extras technically inferior? Can they be compiled out if you wish?

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