On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:11:54 +0100 Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote:
> Le 11/12/2017 à 09:39, Lars Noodén a écrit : > > Interesting essay. > > > > /Lars > > > > "The importance of Devuan" > > > > https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2017/12/10/the-importance-of-devuan/ > > > > Please note the following. In the abovementioned blog, Nico > Schottelius wrote: > > Let's say every car manufacturer recently discovered a new > > technology named "doord", which lets you open up car doors much > > faster than before. It only takes 0.05 seconds, instead of 1.2 > > seconds on average. So every time you open a door, you are much, > > much faster! > > This is the original saling argument, but it is wrong. Several > persons have already reported that Devuan's sysvinit booted faster > than Debian's systemd. > > Didier This whole thing is a difficult discussion to have if what's commonly called "conspiracy theory" is not allowed into the discussion. Relegating the entire systemd debacle to "Hanlon's razor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor) is implausible unless one sees stupidity around every corner, *and* all the stupidity resonates in an identical direction at all times. Much more plausible explanations involve the "follow the money" heuristic, and when you point that out, a chorus of Hanlonites call you a conspiracy theorist, offer you a tinfoil hat, and say you're offtopic. Meanwhile, regardless of boot speed, a giant entangled monolith that reinvents ten or so wheels, tying the reinvented wheels inextricably together and to several other tie points, thereby eliminating parts interchangeability, is on the face of it a bad idea. That would take an incredibly coherent wave of stupidity to foist on the world. It would be like a million monkeys with a million typewriters. On the other hand, throw money and profit motive into the equation, and it's quite easy to see how this happened, and why a myth of boot speed gained so much ground so fast. As always, conspiracies exist, so automatically ruling out all conspiracy theories is a logical falacy. SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng