Brian Masinick
Hi anti, you’re right about kernels. Those that are built primarily or exclusively for servers, and distributions specifically tuned for server use and server security do those things well, but it’s at the expense of interactive user performance. This is much easier to see as your personal equipment ages.
Fedora, for example (also the distribution behind the unconscious following toward systemd), is a solid distribution. After not using it at all for a while, I’ve tried the past couple of releases. They are just as solid as any other distribution, and almost certainly more secure; they are designed that way, and it shows up. Most obvious is the performance implication: you definitely want a system with some speed and power, because the overhead for that intense attention to security with every possible “Security Enhanced Linux” feature enabled, the overhead is considerable.
I don’t see much, if any degraded performance in Debian, even with systemd, but the memory footprint is somewhat greater than what we have, even with a modest environment.
I have some other observations about another related topic, which I’ll share in the thread containing the specific conversation.
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Brian Masinick
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