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Re:Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retro... by 7bit on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:38PM (#41176198)
I appreciated it. I fucking hated all these init scripts and find it muuuuuch easier to get services running under systemd. I don't care about philosophy when it gets in my way of managing systems.
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Re:Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retro... by palata on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:49PM (#41176283)
Had it not been for the philosophy, Linux would not have been a thing. If you don't care about philosophy, consider going to Windows?
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Re:Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retro... by qu4z-2 on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @07:20PM (#41176572)
Why would they have to go to Windows when systemd is bringing Windows to Linux?
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Re:Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retro... by ranger207 on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @07:18PM (#41176558)
I seem to remember a lot of debates on whether or not Linux followed that philosophy compared to a microkernel
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Re:Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retro... by lmm on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @10:48PM (#41177785)
Probably less than it might. I expect microkernels to eventually displace Linux, whether explicitly or by gradually turning Linux into a microkernel.
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Re:Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retro... by mariusor on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @02:43AM (#41178818)
> Had it not been for the philosophy, Linux would not have been a thing

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this, but linux (the kernel) is very much not a "do one thing and do it well" kind of program. You'd need a microkernel for that.

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