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Re:OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like sy... by anthk on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:29PM (#36496828)
>non-racy session termination

The irony it's hard there. SystemD it's the only init system which gave me errors trying to shutdown a machine...

>alternatives to Excel

You are right. Both systemd and Excels are turds. Excel mangled genomics data making it unusable and forcing scientists to rename sequences in order to not clash with Excel's internal names. That's utterly crap and a severe step backwards from scientists from the 90's used to be around Unix/GNU-Linux envs where they were utterly free to name whatever thing in almost any way they wanted.

Re:OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like sy... by jandrese on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @03:58PM (#36497879)
The commonality between Excel and an incel is they think everything is a date.
Re:OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like sy... by rkeene2 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:00PM (#36497909)
Yes, I have a software watchdog specifically because systemd sometimes fails to reboot correctly :-)
Re:OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like sy... by bombela on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:19PM (#36498116)
Same systemd often hang at shutdown and I cannot be bothered to understand why.

My biggest issue with systemd is the log system. It is so stupidly slow, that I don't think it is possible to make it that slow without purpose. It literally takes minutes to grep though logs on any of my machines with journalctl.

In fact it is so slow. It is faster to first eat the few minutes to extract the logs into a text file. Which I can then grep through in milliseconds.

Oh and the raw text file takes less space than the systemd log database!

Re:OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like sy... by chaxor on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @05:21PM (#36498841)
What scientist would ever even consider excel in the first place?
Re:OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like sy... by depereo on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @07:36PM (#36500222)
Most of them, in my experience.