[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.

Tue Aug 23 15:28:36 CEST 2011

On 23 August 2011 13:16, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> The things that these individual tools implement are a few relatively
+>> simply commands to the kernel and it doesn't make sense to do all this
+>> in shell. It makes much more sense to do all these jobs in efficient
+>> code that runs *quickly* without forking hundreds of times. The code is
+>> still perfectly visible and easily hackable, but now things are much
+>> more robust and efficient.
+>
+> Booting faster makes sense on desktops, not on servers. My general
+> impression in this new trend (systemd, networkmanager, etc...) is the need
+> to compete with proprietary system (macos, windows) on end-user segment, at
+> the cost of genericity and simplicity.
+
+Indeed.
+What's more gaining 20s on a server when the IBM uefi/firmware take *minutes* to
+setup the machine is worthless.
+On the server side, we still manage RHEL networking through old style
+ifcfg* config files
+