> There's like, OMG! a billion Android devices out there right now, not including all the other embedded linux devices out there, just ticking away nice and reliably, they just work.
And you might note, that these Android devices got rid of most of that UNIX stuff you're talking about. X11 - gone, UNIX service infrastructure - gone, shell-based design - gone, etc.
Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part XVIII (controllers)
Posted Oct 29, 2012 19:58 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
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I think he's just making fun of the standard argument now-a-days where someone tries to end the conversation by saying " ... but a billion Android devices (can't be wrong)!". As I recall from previous conversations, akeane is exceptionally dry-witted.