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Comment #1 posted on 2022-05-04 17:42:53 by cybergrue

Unix Philosophy

Your understanding of the Unix Philosophy is missing what many consider its most important caveat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
As summarized by Salus, Unix is a collection of programs that each do one thing only and do it well. System D is a grab-bag of lots of functionality and it does not do any of them particularly well, hence why people say that System D is not in the Unix Philosophy.

I agree that the old style Init system had a lot of issues and needed to be replaces, however, I do not agree that System D is the solution. I would have preferred a properly designed, layered and modular init system instead of the all-in-one solution of System D. ie. a bare metal server used to run containers would have the same root level module but different application specific modules as a GUI based tablet. system D was designed for GUI based systems, and is overkill/inappropriate for back-end servers running docker.

Anyways, another good show, and stop selling yourself short, I think you are up to a double-digit number of listeners by now!

Comment #2 posted on 2022-05-05 00:22:41 by Clinton Roy

Debian systemd

I'm writing this comment hot, so you may well cover this in the rest of the show.

I think the major drama with debian and systemd is the murged /usr stuff, which, depending on who you ask is either an existential crises, or a mild wrinkle in package management.

Debian has not switched over to systemd resolved yet either, not looking forward to that :)

Comment #3 posted on 2022-05-19 16:47:36 by brian-in-ohio

out of your depth

Its sad that you call your show as a call back to Linux in Laws.
Fabian Scherschel seemed to do a lot of research on the topics he discussed (and was funnier), that you didn't know what grub stand for shows your lack of preperation. You could have at least listened to Dann Washko's great series on bootloaders done on hpr and been better off.

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