Am 17.09.2014 um 18:06 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > This is highly off-topic, and systemd-related, so if you don't want > your breakfast with a healthy amount of flames, skip it. > > iTWire posted an interview with Linus Torvalds[1], where the Big > Penguin himself gave a succinct and pretty fair opinion on systemd. > The gist of it can be resumed in two lines: > > "I don't personally mind systemd, and in fact my main desktop and > laptop both run it." > > I post it here because several times in the last discussions about > systemd, there was people asking what opinion Linus had about systemd. > I personally don't think Linus particular opinion matters at all in > this particular issue; in general people who likes systemd will > continue to like it, and people who despises it will continue to do > so, for any good, bad, real or imaginary reason. However, I *really* > like several things Linus says in the interview; some juicy bits: > > • "So I think many of the "original ideals" of UNIX are these days > more of a mindset issue than necessarily reflecting reality of the > situation." > > • "There's still value in understanding the traditional UNIX "do one > thing and do it well" model where many workflows can be done as a > pipeline of simple tools each adding their own value, but let's face > it, it's not how complex systems really work, and it's not how major > applications have been working or been designed for a long time. It's > a useful simplification, and it's still true at *some* level, but I > think it's also clear that it doesn't really describe most of > reality." > > • "...systemd is in no way the piece that breaks with old UNIX legacy." > > • " I'm still old-fashioned enough that I like my log-files in text, > not binary, so I think sometimes systemd hasn't necessarily had the > best of taste, but hey, details..[.]" > > • (About the "single-point-of-failure" "argument") "I think people are > digging for excuses. I mean, if that is a reason to not use a piece of > software, then you shouldn't use the kernel either." > > • "And there's a classic term for it in the BSD camps: "bikeshed > painting", which is very much about how random people can feel like > they have the ability to discuss superficial issues, because everybody > feels that they can give an opinion on the color choice. So issues > that are superficial get a lot more noise. Then when it comes to > actual hard and deep technical decisions, people (sometimes) realise > that they just don't know enough, and they won't give that the same > kind of mouth-time." > > It's an interesting read; I highly recommend it. > > [1] > http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/65402-torvalds-says-he-has-no-strong-opinions-on-systemd
thanks for the pointer ;-) S
