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---
categories: [blog]
title: "I'd just like to interject for a moment"
lang: en
translationKey: interjection
date: 2021-04-12T20:20:21+07:00
tags: [humor, meme, systemd, gnu, linux]
---
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as
GNU/Linux, is in fact, systemd/GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling
it, systemd plus GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux is not an operating system unto itself,
but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made
useful by the systemd corelibs, systemd daemons, and systemd utilities
comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
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I just recently learned how much [problematic][prob] systemd is:
- It tries to do way too much for an init system, which is against the Unix philosophy.
- As it does too many things, its code base is more than 1 million line long,
which in turn leads to some more problems:
- It has some security concerns.
- It has poor cross-platform compatibility.
Trying to do too many things [make it worse][morebad].
[prob]: https://skarnet.org/software/systemd.html
[morebad]: https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/21/On-the-traits-of-good-replacements.html
I currently don't find time and energy and enough incentive to switch my whole
system to something else, but if that sounds like a dealbreaker for you, find a
non-systemd distribution, you can find one in this following website:
<https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2019/10/12/135/>
By the way, Alpine Linux is a super lightweight distribution that is neither
GNU nor systemd.
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