Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores

Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by outworlder on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:30PM (#23158579)

Nor is there any consistency with the windows registry. Except that, by being such a pain in the posterior, noone edits it manually anymore and all changes are done through GUI apps. Editing config files is easier and faster (not to mention, automatable), so people don't bother creating "control panels" on Linux for the most part.

> What would be interesting is a complete re-imagining of a server OS

Not sure how 'complete', but aren't you after something like NixOS?

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by skissane on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:27PM (#23159268)

> Nor is there any consistency with the windows registry.

The Windows registry is a bad implementation of a good concept.

Imagine if the registry had a schema with embedded documentation, foreign key relationships, a packages database with each key owned by a package, etc...

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by freefriedrice on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:28PM (#23161365)

I've wrestled with this for DECADES!

I've built software with a configuration database (Windows registry) and with flat configuration file-folders (*nix). I feel like I'm running in a circle because the trade-offs are so equally balanced that there's no best-case. From considering backups and database consistency, to tripwire malware detection of changed settings, to automation of access, to consistency in naming, retrieval, and type conventions, to self-documentation, to backwards compatibility... At this point I'm not even sure I would understand the correct or "best" methodology if it was handed to me on a silver platter.

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by starik36 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:35PM (#23159374)

> Imagine if the registry had a schema with embedded documentation, foreign key relationships

So a database then?

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by skissane on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:47PM (#23159538)

Well, if you think about it, the Windows registry already is a hierarchical database – just a quite limited one. You could have a hierarchical database with richer features (LDAP is a good example of that, although in some ways LDAP is rather clunky).

If by database you mean "relational database" – I'm not sure the relational model is the best fit for a config store. I think a more hierarchical database model is more natural for that purpose. (Of course, you could use a relational database as an underlying implementation detail – LDAP is fundamentally a hierarchical database, but there exist LDAP servers which store the data in an RDBMS, for example Oracle Internet Directory.)

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by pjmlp on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:41AM (#23163827)

Well gconf is hardly any better.

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