Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Montag 19 September 2011, 16:21:08 schrieb Paul Colquhoun:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:31:56 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> > Just don't expect everybody to run our systems without the modern
> > parts of the stack just because a Commodore 64 cannot run it.
> >
> > Many of us actually like the modern features of the kernel, glibc,
> > udev, dbus, systemd, pulseaudio, glib, X.org, GStreamer, Gtk+ and
> > GNOME (or Qt and KDE). In my case (and I have used Linux for a long
> > time), the whole stack looks full of awsomeness, and stuff just works
> > most of the time.
> >
> > So yeah, we use more CPU cycles, more memory and more hard drive. From
> > my POV, we get more than that in new and improved functionality.
>
> Just don't forget that the desktop isn't the whole world, and allow the
> backroom server guys to turn off all the bells, whistles and pretty lights
> so they can get the best performance from their web servers, mail servers,
> DNS servers, etc.

there are at least two kinds of servers - those who don't need bells and 
whistles and run happily on an intel atom.

And those who really do need bells and whistles. I am sure you wouldn't want 
to build such from scratch.

Luckily as a desktop linux user I do not have to care about those guys. And 
these guys don't have to care about me. Isn't that great?

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