[ale] Do One Thing Well

DJ-Pfulio DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
Mon Sep 11 13:53:23 EDT 2017


But systemd is "flawless for the past year" and a "smashing success" for
Phil.

It is good to know that it works for someone out there.

I'm still waiting for it to handle bridge up/down networking correctly.

And for pulse audio not to crash 5 times a day.



On 09/11/2017 09:36 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> The syntax reversal is/was annoying. The stop, status, start, status
> process requires too much back cursor movement and is only a few key
> strokes away from a one line script to automate the process watching
> depending on length of process name.
> 
> On September 11, 2017 9:01:21 AM EDT, Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:
> 
>     Concur.  My systemd+UEFI media server at home has been flawless for the
>     past year.  Dipping my toes into a systemd server at work now.  The
>     claims that systemd works poorly are exaggerations at best.
> 
>     For the one key feature systemd preached at the beginning, fast
>     parallelized boot, systemd is smashing success.  The other key feature,
>     service isolation using kernel control groups, simply works.
> 
>     I'm still annoyed by the syntax reversal of systemctl, but it's not the
>     end of the world.
> 
>     On 09/11/2017 08:37 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
>         All of my systemd gear startup and shutdown quite well. All of
>         the tools, applications, and daemons that do work I want work
>         quite well with systemd. Apache, bind, nfs, ovirt, kerberos,
>         sssd, and even gnome on the workstations all function exactly as
>         required. Systemd does it's multifunction job very well.
> 
>         On September 11, 2017 7:47:00 AM EDT, Joey Kelly
>         <joey at joeykelly.net> wrote:
> 
>             On Sunday 10 September 2017 05:58:11 Leam Hall wrote:
> 
>                 There's a difference between an OS tool and an
>                 application. Things
> 
>             like
> 
>                 awk and init are tools.
> 
> 
>             The inverse of that is "do all things poorly", and systemd
>             does that
>             quite
>             well.
> 
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