Anno domini 2020 Wed, 16 Sep 02:11:57 -0400 Steve Litt scripsit: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:41:19 +0000 > A Nilsson <n...@chalmers.se> wrote: > > > > From: Dng [mailto:dng-boun...@lists.dyne.org] On Behalf Of Bruce > > > Perens via Dng Sent: den 14 september 2020 06:23 > > > > > Systemd and so on are symptoms of the Unix design not really being > > > a good fit for modern demands. > > > > It is important to specify whose demands we are talking about. > > > > The underlying interests of end users and of system administrators > > are remarkably different from those of commercial actors. The latter > > ones are highly motivated, by their nature, to monopolize the control > > over the technical platform. Unix indeed was not designed with this > > purpose in mind. > > I couldn't have said it better.
Don't forget marketing. Those folks usually undestand nothing but think they know everything better. > In addition, I don't see why Unix design isn't a good fit for modern > demands. Edward and Aitor have already made do-one-thing-and-do-it-well > graphical automounters that, as far as I know, depend on neither > systemd nor dbus. I once posted, on this list, a thumb drive plugin > detector/mounter, and somebody else on the list improved on it. Sorry, I must have missed that. Do you have a link to the software? nik > Relatively speaking, I don't think a Network-manager replacement would > be difficult to build, although I never finished with my attempt. > > Speaking of Netowrk manager, am I the only one who hates it messing > with /etc/resolv.conf? You know what I'd like? I'd like > /etc/resolv.conf to be a symlink to one of many files, such as > resolv.dhcp, which *could* be modified by the network manager, and all > sorts of others that can be switched in and out by a shellscript. Most > folks would just use the symlink to resolv.dhcp, but folks like us > could actually put our own unbound on our laptops and use a > resolv.unbound or something like that. > > A Nilsson, you're right: for the commercial actors, Linux is just like > the cars from the 1950's: Change the fins and create a whole new reason > to trade in. And the Appeal to Novelty is much stronger today than it > was in the 1950's. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Autumn 2020 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 > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng