No, the rush to create a vaccine coinicdes with the latest outbreak, which has 10 times (and counting) the number of infected as the next largest outbreak. More importantly, all previous outbreaks were local and contained reasonably easily. This is the first time Ebola is getting away from us; in previous cases we had the option of containing it and letting it run its course, now it looks like that may no longer be enough.

And before this outbreak happened, research into vaccines was already taking place. Of course the urgency is somewhat higher now, since we may be looking at a global epidemic. This has nothing to do with ohmygodanAMERICANgotinfected.

systemd just became WindowsPE.

This is a solution needed, only when you have become so mind-bogglingly complex, and binary-oriented like Windows.

Booting into runlevel S is so... practical.

This was a comment on the basic design flaw of sytemd. I couldn't pass on the joke. Relax a little.

I'm sorry if it seemed personal.

Cheers.

You have a terrible misread on the situation.

I'd like specifics, next time. Not impressions about "smart phones" and watches - which nearly ALL embed an open kernel and rely on open/free toolchains.

Linux, BSD and Mach are in every Samsung and or Apple product with a CPU.

According to Jaye P. Morgan and Harry Morgan, and Jamie Farr.

Controlling for anomaly means controlling for possibility. Huxley's story is a parable of a society with no horizons. It was a criticism of the "utopia" he witnessed as the objective of his contemporaries.

I know what Captain Kirk would have done, if he beamed down there... Damn the Prime Directive!

Penetration? It's spelled "Y-O-_-M-O-M-M-A".

Are Comcast obliged to retain such recordings? Comcast have already denied the guy's claims, and if they smell a lawsuit coming up, they'd make sure those recordings got "lost" if they could get away with it... unless the recording backs up Comcast's side of the story.

Now, before you become a pedant, you must learn to polish your shoes and knot a tie.

Linux is not tied to the init. Correct. Read that as "Linux Distributions".

The "SystemD" is erroneous capitalization - not spelling error. It is deliberate, for editorial satire.

"Muppets" are amusing and bring joy to millions. Try watching some of these "muppets", then come back here and contribute a post with actual content, erroneous or otherwise.

You do not acknowledge the abuse of the Debian Community process? Or the fact that Debian is Upstream of 5 or 7 principal distros?

Why not stuff yourself into PID 1 and execute yourself?

"Gene" isn't even a character from LoTR. He was on the Gong Show.

"Reducing the number of revolutions per minute," Mr. Foster explained. "The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par." Again he rubbed his hands.

[...]

"The lower the caste," said Mr. Foster, "the shorter the oxygen." The first organ affected was the brain. After that the skeleton. At seventy per cent of normal oxygen you got dwarfs. At less than seventy eyeless monsters. (1.70-4)

Mr. Foster's calculating enthusiasm (rubbing his hands in excitement) is concentrated here with the horror of the caste system - horrible not only for its restrictive, predetermining qualities, but also for the destructive, malevolent, harmful way in which its ends are achieved.

I don't mean to pick on these few, but they're indicative of a larger trend toward users who appear to believe that reading manuals and learning OS internals is bad, and we should plaster over all of that mumbo-jumbo with a nice, sleek -- and completely opaque -- management layer. For example: systemd.

I believe this thinking is pretty much in line with Microsoft's train of thought back in the early 1990s. This is an end-user mindset -- this has nothing to do with servers, and certainly not enterprise-level servers. This "learning is hard" mentality is very damaging for Linux as a service platform.

 

Go ahead, kids, spackle over all of that unsightly runlevel stuff. Paint over init and cron, pam and login. Put all of that into PID1 along with dbus. Make it all pretty and whisper sweet nothings about how it's all taken care of and you won't have to read a manual or learn any silly command-line stuff. Tune your distribution for desktop workloads. Go reinvent Windows.

"You Have Your Windows in My Linux"

That was a personal matter.

He's no Copernicus, blazing a new vision previously un-charted and thus incomprehensible to his peers.

LP is just pivoting to the kind of architectural model for platform software and device/process communication that defined VMS and IBMs SNA. That way? Ah. DLL hell....