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Re:The largest Git repo by hueving on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @07:52PM (#14414341)
No it doesn't. I think you are thinking of the kernel, which is separate from all the distros.

Linux by itself is just a kernel and won't do anything for you without the rest of the bits that make up an operating system.

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Re:The largest Git repo by taeric on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @09:41PM (#14414763)
Then I'll point to the wide success of monolithic utilities such as systemd as evidence that consolidating typically helps long term.

Which is to say, not shockingly, it is typically a tradeoff debate where there is no toggle between good and bad. Just a curve that constantly jumps back and forth between good and bad based on many many variables.

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Re:The largest Git repo by hueving on Saturday May 27, 2017 @04:32AM (#14429393)
systemd is also completely useless on its own. It still needs a bootloader, a kernel, and user-space programs to run.

When it comes to process managers, there is obviously disagreement about how complex they should be, but systemd is still a system to manage and collect info about processes.

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