Martin Schröder wrote:
2015-07-12 11:54 GMT+02:00 Rob Janssen <[email protected]>:
or Microsoft, and leave the Linux community alone. We don't want that kind
of sh*t,
Instead you prefer a project that claims to need a dozen people full
time for a small problem.
Well, it is the chief maintainer of the project that claims this, not the
project itself.
I have seen this claim a few times, but I also see people in other fields claim
that they
make 80 hour workweeks, and I usually attribute this to either exaggeration or
inefficient working. Some people achieve less in 80 hours than others do in 20.
In that case it is dangerous to extrapolate the own figures to the number of
people
required to do the job. It may well be that one additional person can do the
remaining
11/12 of the work.
On the actual topic, I think it is not a good idea to combine all kinds of
system jobs into a
single subsystem that is unfamiliar and has behaviour that may be documented
but is not
obvious. Someone who installs Linux and finds that the distributor has made
the unfortunate
step of replacing init with systemd will not see the need to check the
documentation to find
if this maybe also replaces ntpd. The case shows that this causes havoc, and
I cannot
blame the victim for this. I blame systemd for stepping into this area.
The next time I upgrade my system I will look for a Poettering-free Linux.
When that is
still available.
Rob
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