Hey guys, I have been using a Linux for a while and I always thought as long as some software is Open Source, its good enough.
What are other considerations that make for good FOSS software? In which of these does systemd fail? Is that why it’s criticized or is there some other reason?
FOSS being good enough is the baseline, not the finish line. Systemd violates the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well by absorbing functionality that belongs elsewhere like logging, networking, and user sessions. Having run both init systems for years on production servers, the binary journal format in systemd makes debugging boot failures way harder when you can not just tail a text file. Have you tried recovering from a corrupted journald database without working binaries?