Re: Linux Future

2013-02-24 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 05:12:59AM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: This blogpost is months old but it makes some interesting reflections: http://www.pappp.net/?p=969

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-28 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Adam Borowski may or may not have written... [snip] No, it's something in the middle. Those who dislike systemd say it exaggerates systemd's claimed benefits, while Joss considers it an attack as well. Let's no go there for now. What makes this article worth reading is that

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-01-23 20:45:49 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: There are two ways to design a system: * a monolithic well-integrated system, granting features and efficiency at the cost of portability and hackability * the traditional Unix way, with a

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-25 Thread Uoti Urpala
Russ Allbery wrote: Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: There are two ways to design a system: * a monolithic well-integrated system, granting features and efficiency at the cost of portability and hackability * the traditional Unix way, with a stress on replaceable tools that

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 23 janvier 2013 à 21:03 +0100, Florian Weimer a écrit : Unfortunately, a lot of this doesn't apply to the polkit version in experimental, which replaces .plka files with Javascript (which sort-of enforces that only system administrators can configure polkit, and not other

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 22 janvier 2013 à 16:32 -0500, Theodore Ts'o a écrit : One of the big things which is incredibly frustrating with the D-Bus interfaces is that they aren't documented; and if they are documented, it's not obvious where. I can only agree completely. It is very frustrating for some

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: You might find this useful: http://np237.livejournal.com/33449.html I made this presentation in the hope to make such things easier to understand for the sysadmin. I read that back then when you originally posted it and I still think it's one of the

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:46:33AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: You might find this useful: http://np237.livejournal.com/33449.html I made this presentation in the hope to make such things easier to understand for the sysadmin. Just for the record I found it a good read, and mentally have

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:57:58PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 14:41 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: This blogpost is months old but it makes some interesting reflections: http://www.pappp.net/?p=969

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jon Dowland: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:46:33AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: You might find this useful: http://np237.livejournal.com/33449.html I made this presentation in the hope to make such things easier to understand for the sysadmin. Just for the record I found it a good read,

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:16:40PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:57:58PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 14:41 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: This blogpost is months old but it

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: There are two ways to design a system: * a monolithic well-integrated system, granting features and efficiency at the cost of portability and hackability * the traditional Unix way, with a stress on replaceable tools that do only one thing,

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:45:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: There are two ways to design a system: * a monolithic well-integrated system, granting features and efficiency at the cost of portability and hackability * the traditional Unix way,

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 24/01/2013 13:09, Adam Borowski wrote: [...] * the monolithic design has a huge freeness problem. To do anything not on a rigid list of features you need to learn the intricaties of a large complex system, and you can be certain that even if you manage to do so, your patches will

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: Putting it another way: * the monolithic design has a huge freeness problem. To do anything not on a rigid list of features you need to learn the intricaties of a large complex system, and you can be certain that even if you manage to do so,

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Chow Loong Jin hyper...@debian.org writes: * But if it ever fails due to a bug within it, $DEITY help you, because you're going to have to go through everything mentioned in your first point here (save the issues with getting patches accepted) Sometimes, debugging can be

Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello, This blogpost is months old but it makes some interesting reflections: http://www.pappp.net/?p=969 I wonder what's Debian position in regards to FLOS* vs Unix philosophy. Is there one, at all? (I can't remember reading one, my apologies if this was discussed and I have not noticed) *

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Hello, This blogpost is months old but it makes some interesting reflections: http://www.pappp.net/?p=969 It appears to be the most insightful thing about systemd vs the rest of the world I've ever read. READ IT, FOLKS!

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 14:41 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Hello, This blogpost is months old but it makes some interesting reflections: http://www.pappp.net/?p=969 It appears to be the most insightful thing about

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 22 janvier 2013 à 14:57 +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : Worthwhile to read, definitely. Yet full of misinformation, like the idea that using D-Bus makes a service less scriptable (while the reality is a complete opposite), or that configuration files are less human-readable than shell

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 03:05:58PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 22 janvier 2013 à 14:57 +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : Worthwhile to read, definitely. Yet full of misinformation, like the idea that using D-Bus makes a service less scriptable (while the reality is a complete

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Yet full of misinformation, like the idea that using D-Bus makes a service less scriptable (while the reality is a complete opposite) I was bit puzzled by this part too but I guess the author meant mostly shell scripts here. If one uses e.g. python then

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mardi 22 janvier 2013 à 14:57 +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : Worthwhile to read, definitely. Yet full of misinformation, like the idea that using D-Bus makes a service less scriptable (while the reality is a

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 03:05:58PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Yet full of misinformation, like the idea that using D-Bus makes a service less scriptable (while the reality is a complete opposite), or that configuration files are less human-readable than shell scripts. My biggest complaint

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Hello, This blogpost is months old but it makes some interesting reflections: http://www.pappp.net/?p=969 https://plus.google.com/u/0/115547683951727699051/posts/74r518xVUNH -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description:

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 01/22/2013 09:05 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 22 janvier 2013 à 14:57 +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : Worthwhile to read, definitely. Yet full of misinformation, like the idea that using D-Bus makes a service less scriptable (while the reality is a complete opposite), or that