Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do the sane thing”
I would assume this is about systemd. Personally my experience with it has been great - the occasional screw-ups (they did happen - something related to dbus made all systemctl commands fail until a reboot) were nothing compared to the time I gained not having to worry about prehistoric initscripts.<p>So while it isn&#x27;t perfect, it&#x27;s IMO a step in the right direction, if only by lowering the barrier to entry to actually using and managing the thing.<p>If you are worried about stability then you shouldn&#x27;t rely on a single machine anyway. Personally I manage systemd screw-ups (though I haven&#x27;t had one in production yet - all of them were on my personal machines while monkeying around with Archlinux) just like any other hardware failure - by making sure my app&#x2F;service stays available even if I yank the power cord from the machine.