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systemd versus non-systemd / Miscellaneous / Find systemd dependency cycles.

systemd versus non-systemd

Kicksecure is a systemd-based distribution. Kicksecure is not anti-systemd.

The Kicksecure lead developer isn't convinced by anti-systemd arguments justifying a move to a non-systemd distribution.

Non-systemd is unsupported because no contributors support this use case.

TODO: expand

The interfaces (the way packages and distributions can place configuration files there) of

• /usr/lib/systemd/system/unit-name.service(.d);
  • ability to easily use capabilities and syscall filters for security hardening
• systemd tmpfiles.d / /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/;

are excellent.

The The Boot Loader Interface LoaderSystemToken feature sounds excellent.

Bad things:

• journal log being binary
• adding systemd into the names of tools such as systemd-resolved, systemd-networkd and making these systemd-dependent
• systemd-boot only supporting Intel/AMD64 architectureKicksecure lead developer opinion.

See also:

• https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Arguments_against_systemd/

Interesting

• dot_find_cycles.py - uses Pydot and NetworkX to find cycles in a dot file directed graph.

See Also

• https://forums.kicksecure.com/t/non-systemd-systemd-discussion/766
• https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-without-systemd/18426

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