Systemd Kills Off Shutdownd

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Systemd Kills Off Shutdownd

Systemd has eliminated shutdownd, one of the oldest components of this controversial init system, but its removal isn't because systemd is going on a diet...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Kill-Shutdownd

[magika]

omg omg systemd gains some more bloat and kills open source
On an unrelated note, phoronix forums are broken in Chrome, since it refuses to load "unsafe scripts" and I don't really want to do that either.

[oleid]

omg omg systemd gains some more bloat and kills open source

...says the one with a bloated proprietary browser

[Ancurio]

Making shutdown functionality part of the component responsible for session management makes a lot of sense.

[profoundWHALE]

omg omg systemd gains some more bloat and kills open source
On an unrelated note, phoronix forums are broken in Chrome, since it refuses to load "unsafe scripts" and I don't really want to do that either.

...says the one with a bloated proprietary browser

I chuckled.

[Mr.Elendig]

omg omg systemd gains some more bloat and kills open source

Please explain how systemd kills open source. I would love to see some actual facts proving this.

[phrx_reader]

systemd is already non-free software

Systemd is as much threat to Free Software as all commercial software. It's like the nvidia code obfuscation some years ago, it takes freedom number one away from their users:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

[finalzone]

Systemd is as much threat to Free Software as all commercial software. It's like the nvidia code obfuscation some years ago, it takes freedom number one away from their users:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

Source: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/ and http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/

What did you say again?

[phrx_reader]

Even if it is GPL code one freedom is removed from the users

Source: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/ and http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/

What did you say again?

Freedom 1:
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

This does no longer apply since systemd is a complicated set of deamons communicatong with libsystemd, also via dbus, and people have tried to single out e.g. udev and logind parts and failed. Add to that the non-existance of comment in the code, look for yourself. There are man pages, but these don't explain the cod base. NOTE: This is a new phenomenon in the free software world so it is not yet well known. It will in the future though, it's all about vendor lock-in as with M$ and apple

[darkcoder]

omg omg systemd gains some more bloat and kills open source
On an unrelated note, phoronix forums are broken in Chrome, since it refuses to load "unsafe scripts" and I don't really want to do that either.

Let me understand this...

They removed a service that was already part of systemd as one of the services, made it part of logind (which makes sense), getting rid of services and binary files, and you call that bloat???? http://www.freedesktop.org/software/...d.service.html