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LCE: Systemd two years on

LCE: Systemd two years on

Posted Nov 9, 2012 1:56 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: LCE: Systemd two years on by jtc
Parent article: LCE: Systemd two years on

> "That repackaging allows a more integrated approach to the boot process that also eliminates some code and feature duplication that occurred across the formerly separate components. By eliminating duplication, and providing a more integrated approach to the boot components, the resulting system is easier for system administrators to manage."

> Are you implying that this claim is a lie?

A lie, probably not.

A attempt to disguise an enjoyable and beautiful engineering exercise as something performed to solve important problems users loudly complained about; maybe yes.

Don't get me wrong: many good engineers tend to be guilty of this. As recently posted here: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
And it's not just open source but also one of standard ways to BS your boss.


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LCE: Systemd two years on

Posted Nov 9, 2012 9:15 UTC (Fri) by BradReed (subscriber, #5917) [Link]

A jwz comment from 2003 is recent?

LCE: Systemd two years on

Posted Nov 9, 2012 23:26 UTC (Fri) by artem (subscriber, #51262) [Link]

'Here' in this context means another lwn thread where that 2003 comment was mentioned recently.

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