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On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Stroller |
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<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On 23 August 2011, at 07:27, Joost Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> ... |
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>>> * found this blog-entry against systemd: |
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>>> http://monolight.cc/2011/05/the-systemd-fallacy/ |
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>>> I agree, it might be more useful on desktops ... so far I am still |
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>>> exploring and learning to get to the point to make a decision where and |
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>>> if to use. |
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>> I think it is more useful on desktops and laptops, which get rebooted |
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>> regularly. On a server that tends to run for months without a reboot, a fast |
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>> init-system is important. |
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>> And I don't really see the point of D-BUS on a server either. All the services |
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>> that need to talk to each other already have working communication paths. |
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> Reading that blog entry I found discouraging the idea that dbus might be required on my servers in the future, if systemd becomes popular with distros. |
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I don't see the problem with D-Bus. It's small (the only hard |
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dependency it has is an XML parser), and it provides the Linux/UNIX |
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(de facto) standard interprocess communication system. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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