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bySlashbotAgent ( 6477336 ) writes:
Hopefully Poettering will fade away now.
Systemd succeeded injecting itself because he had Red Hat's bulk behind him. As an independent, he'll have no traction. I guarantee he'll be looking for work ina year's time.
Please, no one hire him.
byShaitan ( 22585 ) writes:
Yes but its been around awhile now. Will all the baby admins who grew up sipping from systemd's teet give it up?
bydskoll ( 99328 ) writes:
No, probably not. Most people have made their peace with systemd and I think it'll persist.
bygweihir ( 88907 ) writes:
Making peace with systemd is easy: Just do not use it. Prevents a lot of problems.
bydskoll ( 99328 ) writes:
Meh, whatever. If you don't want to use systemd, that's fine. But debate it on its merits, not because its author has an abrasive personality or because it doesn't follow some nebulous "UNIX philosophy".
bygweihir ( 88907 ) writes:
It has no merits. It increases complexity while trying to hide it. As IT is not a mature and very reliable discipline, that is amateur-hour.
Yes, I get you very likely do not understand that due to lack of engineering skill.
bydskoll ( 99328 ) writes:
Yes, I obviously have a lack of engineering skill... hmm... M.Eng in Electronics; seven engineering patents to my name; retired on the proceeds of selling a successful software company... yeah, that's it. Low skill for sure.
LOL. It's so funny how insecure people get personal instead of actually discussing technical merits.
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byBarsteward ( 969998 ) writes:
You are trying to deal with the "old guard" who'll never change and need to try and keep the niche role by having scripts than no-one else knows about.
bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
try and keep the niche role by having scripts than no-one else knows about
This is nonsense. Nobody with any sense is developing their own solutions for everything, because someone else has already done it — unless it's so simple that someone else competent could just write essentially the same script. I write tons of short scripts, but I don't think any of them are magic, they're just time savers because I will do the same things again later. Then maybe they become the basis of some automation later.
It's also nonsense because one of the defining characteristics of shell scr
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