Re: [9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-13 Thread lucio
> Are there still human beings believing that "progress" is a function > of chronology: the newer, the better? I think there are many who believe that everything they find stressful in the present will be taken care of in the next technological iteration. Lucio.

Re: [9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-13 Thread hiro
you know where to get it, etc...

Re: [9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-13 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:02:46AM +0200, dante wrote: > >[...] > I also have the impression that the trend set by the original Unix > architecture (small, one-job components, generic interfaces) > is nowadays replaced in many areas with integrated solutions > ("frameworks") that provide non-se

Re: [9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-13 Thread dante
This is a valid observation, although as everything that has to do with architecture, hard to prove. (Don't use the P-word, that's reserved for Plato and Nietzsche.) I also have the impression that the trend set by the original Unix architecture (small, one-job components, generic interfaces) i

Re: [9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-13 Thread cam
> http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1408.1/02496.html just when you think a given operating systems would not be bastardized any further, some genius fucks it to the next level. launchd/smf and a webserver as process 1... baffling, this is.

Re: [9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-12 Thread Eris Discordia
That's mainly interpersonal politics. Poettering probably pounded him too hard one time. He isn't giving a technical refutation of systemd and that's actually very well possible. Why shouldn't someone turn the ranter to LFS instead? Someone with 20 years of so-called loyalty and evangelism o

[9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-12 Thread Aharon Robbins
http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1408.1/02496.html Someone should turn this guy on to Plan 9. :-) Arnold