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On 11/21/14 17:39, wireless@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> On 11/21/14 07:00, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés |
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>> <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> It's actually a great thing for a lot of use cases. But it doesn't |
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>>> seem that Gentoo will change defaults soon, although systemd works |
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>>> great with it. |
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>> My (personal) sense is that in the medium-term we may end up moving to |
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>> not having any default at all, just as with bootloaders, kernels, |
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>> syslog, crontab, mail, etc. That is pretty-much the Gentoo way |
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>> everywhere else when there are options. |
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>> As you already pointed out, as long as somebody cares to maintain |
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>> openrc and write init scripts for it, there will be support for it. |
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>> Many init scripts and systemd units are contributed by outside users |
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>> already, and policy is that maintainers cannot block them from being |
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>> added to packages (though they do not have to write/maintain them |
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>> personally). |
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>> Gentoo doesn't really tend to exclude anything, and inclusion is a |
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>> matter of whether somebody wants to put in the work. |
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>> Rich |
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> Very wall expressed and neutral. This is an "800 lb gorilla" that nobody |
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> seems to be talking about; that is embedded linux. Embedded linux now |
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> accounts for at least 20 times the number of deployments of linux than |
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> workstations and servers combined; some argue it is far more, others a |
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> bit less. Regardless, embedded linux is a force that is driving the |
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> semiconductor markets. There's not much margin on 32bit or less. etc etc. |
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> The main point of embedded linux is take what Rich has articulated above |
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> and multiply it by a billion. There is no such thing as standard |
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> embedded linux. If Systemd is successful, with very large embedded |
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> systems (dozens to hundreds of cores) then it has a future. If it |
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> fails in that space, it may survive, but not likely. It will old serve |
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> to isolate those distros that go down that path, exclusively, *imho*. |
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> Regardless, the smaller, cheaper embedded linux crowd is very unlikely |
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> to ever embrace systemd. Why? Glad you asks. Thousands of reasons, but, |
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> here are a few: It is very common in embedded (anything) to run |
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> multiple and often different rtos (real time operating system) on |
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> different embedded systems products, often to circumvent licenses, |
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> royalties, duplication, security and a plethora of other reasons. |
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> Furthermore, many embedded systems run simultaneous codes on a single |
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> core and systemd does not fit into that scheme of things, at all. |
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> So, even if gentoo becomes stupid and decides to abandon openrc. Many |
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> folks will just move to embedded (gentoo) linux and play "follow the |
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> leaders" with bootstrapping there cores. |
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> Rest easy as the devs fight this one out. I hope systemd survives |
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> and prospers. I can tell you one area of massive failure and that is |
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> clustering/cloud computing. Sure the "big dogs" with big buck are |
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> claiming to use systemd, but they only roll out binary offerings. When |
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> others try to use one of the commercial brands of linux and build a |
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> cluster/cloud from the source-codes up, there are all sorts of problems. |
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> Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Very strange, batman. Very strange. |
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> What is going on, is wildly variant. YMMV. But, should I be a sporting |
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> man, my money is on the embedded folks deciding if something other than |
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> systemd survives. Why do I bet on embedded folks? Easy. I personally |
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> know of dozens of folks that code in machine, assembler all the way |
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> through any language they choose. They routinely build entire systems, |
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> custom on a wide bit of processors. Only a few of those folks are |
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> necessary to keep alternatives to systemd alive, prosperous and |
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> clearly documented. There are most likely tens of thousands of the |
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> folks around the world. Do the math. Each time one of these experts |
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> build an embedded |
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> (linux) system, it is usually optimized and so wonderful, that |
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> companies clone them in counts of thousands to millions of deployed |
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> linux systems. The fact that the majority rare require human tinkering, |
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> is both a testament to how well they run and the wisdon of these |
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> brilliant developers to keep the rank and file humanoids using winblows |
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> and OXlooser operating systems. |
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> A forking of the linux kernel would be the best thing to happen to |
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> opensource, in a very, very long time. The kernel development has become |
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> a "good ole boys club" imho. |
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> Embedded linux runs everywhere; so rest easy! |
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> peace, |
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> James |
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I hope for this to be the case |