>On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:46:19 -0600 >Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sigh. > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0OTY > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge > > -- Bruce
I have to say I find this hilarious. As I was reading the freedesktop page, I had trouble fully understanding the reason for the move. Yeah, compatibility, but with what? Slowaris? Why would I want to be compatible with Solaris? And then it hit me when I read this: > Example: /usr Network Share > > With the merged /usr directory we can offer a read-only export of the > vendor supplied OS to the network, which will contain almost the > entire operating system resources. The client hosts will then only > need a minimal host-specific root filesystem with symlinks pointing > into the shared /usr filesystem. ALL HAIL THE CLOUD BABY!! THE CLOUD IS OUR SAVIOUR! I think this is a heavy-handed corporate move, probably by Oracle, to do something regarding the market share and/or corporate profits, the bottom line and earnings-per-share. Boy, will I laugh when that whole cloud thing comes tumbling down. -- Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
