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Pretty weird for Systemd to have its own cache and resolver. If you need a local resolver and a cache simply run a local DNS server rather than to re-invent the wheel (in a broken way at that). I'm sure they have their reasons but this is not the unix way.

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Systemd is just not the Unix Way. It's some shit program that requires to be run as PID 1, and takes over the system in the forms of an octopus. And, you need some gods-awful binary program to even read their logfiles. Yes, it's like the Windows registry.

Even Debian has succumbed to Systemd.

Yes, it's like the Windows registry.

Nope, that would be GSettings/dconf. It's limited to GNOME, thankfully.

Actually systemd is more like DCOM which is much worse.

The registry is fucking marvellous in comparison.

Nah, the equivalent of DCOM is dbus.

Which is what systemd is built on. At least on windows COM stays in user space but no, fuck it, lets use kdbus on Linux...

Sure, that's what built on, and that's why the equivalence was incorrect. You'd might as well say that systemd = Linux.

Systemd is a fascist.

I've been thinking a lot about the Windows Registry (and /etc, etc) and I've come to the conclusion that the systems which get it the most "right" is the app model (e.g. Android, iOS, Windows 8).

You see systems like Docker containers, which try to isolate a complete application and its configuration files together, and really that is just a hacky solution to the lack of inherent silo-ing within the underlying design.

While silo-ed apps have their own limitations (e.g. two "apps" using the same configurations) most of them can be overcome with tinkering for the edge cases.

I'd never design a system in 2014 with either Windows Registry (too messy, impossible to manage), or /etc (too inconsistent with itself, also often results in orphan files).

The correct analogy would be Event Viewer, not the Registry.

I am afraid sir, that comparing the system take over to the 'forms of an octopus' is most unfair to our dear Cephalopod friends.

I encourage you all to please use the more appropriate comparison : Cthulhu / Cthulhud

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cthulhu%27d

It wouldn't be systemd if it didn't reinvent the wheel.

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