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On 19/10/2014 22:40, James wrote: |
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> You and the other systemd (herd/project) dudes are wonderful. Right now, |
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> I just like openrc/cgroups/assembler and stories from other old_farts. |
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> You young whipper_snappers should be very glad us old farts still hack |
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> and hang out like we do. Kids might look at him and say "Wow". Older folks |
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> just murmur under their breath that this snot_nosed_kid should have been |
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> bitch_slapped by that idiot Linus. He failure to reign in that looser |
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> cannot be white_washed by anyone; so let's just let this go....... |
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> The more I read about the entire affair the more pissed I get. |
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Relax James, it's all good and the wheel turns. |
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I'm an old fart too, the first computer I ever owned was a Sinclair Mk |
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14 and I built it by hand from a kit. I've met 3 people who even know |
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what it is :-) |
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Anyway, all the lessons of the past are never truly forgotten, and most |
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of us do know how to pick the right tool for the job. These young |
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whipper-snappers think that cloud is the bestest and most awesomest |
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thing ever, folks over 35 know that this is the THIRD time we've gone |
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through this evolution (had stuff in a "data centre" and now farming it |
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out to a "cloud"). In 5 years from now it will all consolidate and we'll |
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be pulling the cloud back into data centres. It will look different, but |
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the principle will be the same. |
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Like splitting the CPU & GPU, I lose count of the number of times we've |
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done this too (think math co-processors and mainframe front-end |
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controllers and DMA). |
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And so it is with systemd, right now it is the buzz word because it's |
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declarative, easy to maintain and simplifies keeping control of complex |
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systems with gobs and gobs of RAM (RAM is cheap, dev and sysadmin time |
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is very expensive). Embedded: ah, that's another story. RAM is very |
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expensive there and in short supply. If it hasn't already been done, |
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someone will write an init system for constrained embedded devices that |
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has no need of systemd, and it will be better than SysVInit |
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Systemd will never take over the world - as soon as it causes too much |
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pain for someone who doesn't need it, they will find a way to get along |
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without it. And those who do need/want it can still have it. |
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This is just how things work, and you've seen it all play out before :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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