Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th...
by digi_owl on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:00PM
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Effectively what you are responding to is the ever more prevailing "cloud" mentality, where there is always another instance to spin up in a second if something where to break.
And while systemd may have started on the desktop (likely to "solve" the speed of repeated bootups when using a laptop "securely") increasingly its development is dictated by this cloud mentality (as is the development of various distros, as someone basically shouted to my virtual face over at LWN).
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/07/08/true-story-fixing-a...
And while systemd may have started on the desktop (likely to "solve" the speed of repeated bootups when using a laptop "securely") increasingly its development is dictated by this cloud mentality (as is the development of various distros, as someone basically shouted to my virtual face over at LWN).