Comment Re:Sorry it's freebsd FTW (Score 1) 522
Do they still only rebuild packages once per week? They used to do that when pkgng was new and waiting up to a week for an update was a bit too long.
Do they still only rebuild packages once per week? They used to do that when pkgng was new and waiting up to a week for an update was a bit too long.
Yes.
Defragging the hard drive and updating the AV scanner? I thought that wasn't even necessary on Windows anymore.
GnuTLS is just one of the supported TLS toolkits. It uses the Security framework on OS X, and SChannel on Windows.
Is it actually correct or is it "but gcc allows it anyway!"?
Yes.
Just like the Linux kernel being GPLv2 has forced them to reveal anything as it is?
One of the benefits with Systemd is that it adds functionality.
A Gnome 2-inspired look and feel.
A fully functional Systemd has about 69 or so binaries. That's hardly monolithic.
Systemd is not monolithic. It takes a number of components that used to be developed separately and streamlines them under the same roof, making them work better together. It's is not and there has never been the idea that everything under the sun should go into the same binary.
And with any luck, someday you'll have a bootloader and a single binary named linux?
Not likely anytime soon, but I can see some use for that in embedded systems.
The problem imo is specifically that it's not just an init system. It's morphing into it's own thing that wants to take over all routine system behaviour, and the attitude of the devs is not encouraging (too lazy to find the link, but an oft quoted comment regarding log file corruption illustrates this quite well).
You say that as if it's a bad thing that stuff can be made to work well together if it's developed together.
Linux (at least in my opinion) is all about choice. Don't like the way something works, use something else or write your own. Systemd is becoming a huge chunk that can't easily be swapped out for something else. I'm really against that.
I have not tested but it looks like you can swap it out for something else on at least Debian:
https://packages.debian.org/je...
And importance is relative. If you just want a functioning system, I agree that none of this is really that important and I'd probably just use ubuntu or mint or hell just windows or mac. I use gentoo specifically because I like my system "just so". Most people probably fall somewhere in between these points, with some past where they care about systemd and some not. I think this is perfectly healthy. If no one cared about init systems or boot loaders, no one would be developing them!
Indeed.
It's not text editor. Clearly it does not want to be everything. It's an init system, which in a modern system involves parts which used to be developed as separate projects, but since everyone uses them it's better to collect everything under one roof where it's easier to make things work well together.
There has been a lot of work on the Win32 backend over the past year or so. It's much better now.
Let the machine do the dirty work. -- "Elements of Programming Style", Kernighan and Ritchie
