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Re:Debian 12 'Bookworm' is the excitement-free Linux you've ... by saurik on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:56AM (#36268008)
I started scrolling through that and came across a chart that has "interfacing via d-bus" as a green feature instead of a red bug at the very top of the list and I'm having a hard time taking it seriously. And I liked the shell scripts that Linux classically had been using: it meant I could read and trace what was happening. I dunno... if you have "modular C" as a feature and "shell scripts" as a bug you probably have made up a bunch of "problems" the same way people who would always whine about their languages and frameworks not being "modern" often do :/.
Re:Debian 12 'Bookworm' is the excitement-free Linux you've ... by klysm on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:35AM (#36289228)
In reality the shell scripts used in the previous generation of init systems were difficult to follow. I agree that dbus is perhaps heavy weight, but it does provide an API. You can run systemd without it.