Devuan Jessie beta released

It's just a bit different.

Let me put an analogy. You've used a sled with a pile of random things attached to it for years. Various sticks are picking in random direction but copious application of duct tape and bailing wire sticks everything together. You could pull it along with a few good horses but must be really careful to not destroy it. That's the current situation.

Somone comes along and proposes a nice car. Some people argue that it's not a nice thing to have because "everyone knows how to operate sled" and some like it "because you could easily do things which you couldn't do before".

And then comes this article. It explains in rather heavy writing why your design of that car is bad one, why tiller is a bad way to drive a car and that four wheels are not ideal, six would be better. This may very well be so—or not. But to give meaningful answer (indeed steering wheel is better than tiller but four wheels are usually Ok) you need to think a lot more then when you've chosen car over sled!

I, personally, am not qualified enough to give a meaningful answer for that article. I'm just not sure how severe are the problems and/or how hard and disruptive would be to change systemd to address them. I just note that sysvinit is not even mentioned in that article—and for good reason: it's dead, Jim. It's just so inadequate in today's world it's not even funny.

Systemd may not be an ideal system (what system is?) but it's so much better that what we had before that said article does not even try to fight that battle which was lost long ago. Instead if compares systemd to other, more modern systems—and, indeed, some of these have nice properties and solve some problems better than systemd. Which is nice: it means that systemd could be improved. Will it be improved? I have no idea—but this discussion does not belong to the thread where "let's preserve the sled!" Devuan distribution is discussed.