All I care about is if users that are stuck with the never-ending train-wreck that is Windows 8/8.1 going to get a free upgrade to Windows 10.

I didn't say they "dominate in the cloud", I said they were one of the largest companies in cloud. I never even said they were the largest.

The largest players in general compute cloud are Amazon, Oracle, ATT, Verizon, IBM, Microsoft, Google. Any one of these players could compete for a 100 million dollar deal.

You could also group Salesforce, Concur and some other very large cloud-specific companies in there.

The main reason is it costs A LOT of money to lay people off due to severance payments and things like having to pay out retirement benefits etc.

Enterprise Software - IBM is still the kingpin in this

Cloud - Since they bought SoftLayer and combined them in with their existing portfolio, IBM is one of the largest companies in cloud today

Security - Taken as a standalone unit, IBM Security software & services is the second largest company in security today, second only to Symantec. It's bigger than McAfee now.

So the proposal is an attempt to force volunteers to do something they do not care doing by themselves? That sounds like a solid plan and will surly result in well working support for non-systemd unit systems.

What could possibly go wrong with that plan?

Yeap, the indexing in the journald files does increase the file size. That does speed up searches though, so it does have its advantage.

But systemd also logs a lot more than syslog ever could. This includes a lot of meta data (e.g. systems unit that started a process, cryptographic hash) for each entry as well as more entries (e.g. stdout and stderr from all daemons).

What does systemd make worse?

I can e.g. restrict services far more effectively since I switched my machines to systemd. I really appreciate that. I also find the socket activation really convenient and am really happy to be rid of that horrible crontab syntax. Networkd works like a charm and debugging became so much easier since the log output is finally complete.

So far I have yet to find anything I miss from sysv unit.

That is indeed not posible: systems logs stuff that is not accessible to syslog (e.g. stdout and stderr of all processes run by systemd, output geerated before/after syslogd is up, etc.) and needs journald as some kind of internal interface to pass all that information on.

Why journald?

Because systemd logs stuff that is not accessible to syslog and thus needs an interface to buffer (e.g. before syslog is up) and forward that information to syslog.

That system grew up to handle most of the things syslog also does. So syslog was made optional, so that small systems have one less service that they need to run.

Send like a sensible decision to me.

The complexity of systemd is in stand-alone executables running inseverly restricted environments (no access to /home, private /tmp, read-only /, no network but through one file descriptor, etc.). That is a huge step forward.

This is especially true considering that the systems complexity is also running as separate, far less restricted services on non systemd systems (e.g. cron, xinetd, nwtpd, etc.).

That actually is a pretty good description of how systemd handles this.

Whichh sane ternatives to pulseaudio are you referring to?

How should that work? You need cgrouo support in the init system for that. Do you seriously think that is ever going to be added to sysv init?

Having some external process managing cgroups for init itself can not work, except by having init start the cgroup manager and then having that start everything else.

It gets better in Season 2.

The thing I loved about Arrow is how real it is. It's the only superhero movie or show I have seen in which the hero comes right out of the gate killing everyone he battles. None of this "letting them live" nonsense. This changes in the later seasons but it gave the character a much more realistic story arc, and made the show a lot more gritty.

DC does a lot better with TV than film. Consider

- Smallville was a huge success, very long run
- Arrow has been renewed twice, has a good audience and is doing very well
- The Flash looks like it has legs
- Gotham is getting rave reviews and looks like it has legs as well

Now let's look at their last couple of films:

- Man of Steel - OK this wasn't that bad
- Green Lantern - horrible
- Watchmen - Good movie but flopped
- Jonah Hex - Did anyone even know this movie came out?
- Superman Returns - horrible

The only saving grace has been the Nolan Batman films.