From: James Powell [mailto:james4...@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 2:37 PM
To: T.J. Duchene; 'dng'
Subject: RE: [DNG] systemd in wheezy, was: Re: bummer

 

I also do not think recreating SVCHOST is wise. I followed Windows since 2000 
and since then SVCHOST has pulled in more and more growing the system 
requirements exponentially from 266mhz and 32mb RAM to 1 GHz and 1 GB RAM. This 
should NOT be done in GNU/Linux.

That is really a massive oversimplification.  You really have to remember that 
you are demanding the computer perform an average of 50+ processes at any given 
time.  You can’t blame SVCHOST for that.  The credit for that goes to people 
demanding more.  If you want less resource use, people should start monotasking.

  

 
Systemd is not the answer to GNU/Linux any more than BusyBox is, and by all 
technicality, systemd is just an unmatured BusyBox.

 

While there are some analogies, systemd is definitely not an “unmatured 
BusyBox”.

 

I don't know how things will end, but I can say this, once udev is broken by 
vdev, and it will be, things will change because of kdbus issues. However, if 
kdbus being moved into udev to replace netlink will kill eudev futures, vdev 
will be there without kdbus doing the same work.

I wouldn’t guess.  I do think that everyone concerned about ldbus is overly 
concerned at this point.  Frankly, even if the worst comes to pass and kdbus is 
accepted into the kernel, I find the whole situation somewhat hilarious.  
Everyone is so concerned about systemd/kdbus when you can always apply the 
ultimate sanction and patch to remove them.  That is the whole point of 
opensource.  

My personal solution to the whole FLOS/Systemd/kdbus problem was to realize 
that I actually don’t care if Linux goes off the deep end.   It’s going to 
happen whether I am there or not, and it is pretty clear that they are 
retreading the same ground that brought down Microsoft.  So I decided that I 
use computers to perform tasks. Generally most of code for applications are 
written with a cross-platform kit like Qt and generally POSIX.  As a 
programmer, I can either port them to whatever I am using or run them in a VM.  

What Linux does to itself is less of a concern.  I watch, wait, and have 
wonderful conversations with people such as yourself, but I certainly do not 
lose sleep over Linux’s future.

 

 

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