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[jacob]

By itself and automagically, of course not. I meant implementation specs, not protocol or algorithm specs, you can always implement a bad algorithm in...

[jacob]

The Guardian is not just in the UK, for example I'm happily NOT reading it in Australia ...

[jacob]

There is a fair bit that is wrong with FTP. The inane binary/ascii distinction, the active mode or a RFC that is full of MAY and SHOULD, to name but a...

[jacob]

It will still be right on time for Fedora 34.

[jacob]

I think Devuan receives shitstorms on a regular basis for a reason. I'm not aware of any ongoing bashing of Obarun, Slackware or any of the other non-systemd...

[jacob]

That's one issue; another one is that certain transformations need to be done at a higher level and are simply not implemented in rustc at this stage....

[jacob]

That by itself is not a vindication of C. You can also prove some invariants (to an even lesser degree) in pure assembly. If your goal was strictly to...

[jacob]

Systemd will be replaced by something else in the future because that's called evolution. It's only the *nix neckbeards who live with the firm held belief...

[jacob]

And they also fly around in black helicopters spreading chemtrails....

[jacob]

Windows doesn't have systemd and GNOME does not run there, so GNOME is also threatening and blackmailing Microsoft, right? GIMP depends on GTK so by your...

[jacob]

I also disagree with the idea that Devuan is a waste of resources. These are its maintainers' resources and if it's worth it for them, then more power...

[jacob]

Maybe that's the real crux of it



So once again, being POSIX compliant is a dubious advantage at the best of times; for core...

[jacob]

They are used in Arch and Debian, RHEL is considering switching away from NetworkManager for systemd-networkd in RHEL9 (makes sense for a server-oriented...

[jacob]

Apart from the self-perpetuating meme about systemd being "bloated" (any actual evidence of that?), claims like that miss the point that systemd...

[jacob]

You forgot one: systemd bad coz you can't replace it with ${Joe Random's spare time shitty pet project}. That's why I move to FreeBSD where there is no...

[jacob]

systemd-resolved and systemd-networkd are being used. systemd-homed is too new and not ready yet (it will become much more compelling once we get idmap...

[jacob]

It has supervising processes per "tree" (because there is no other way to actually reliably tell whether a process tree is running... not that...

[jacob]

It's not. S6 is not cleaner or leaner, it's a morass of ductape scripts that makes sysvinit look elegant. It also does not use cgroups, namespaces or...

[jacob]

It wasn't the case before because the old style init systems didn't provide the features modern desktops need. That's why they had to reinvent the wheel...

[jacob]

It is true that Rust compile times are slower than C's, which is understandable because the the compiler does lot more work than a C compiler. This is...