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Systemd 197 released

Posted Jan 9, 2013 6:35 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Systemd 197 released by mgb
Parent article: Systemd 197 released

Very unsubtle trolling.

> Linux and the Gnu tools combine to create an extremely flexible platform that is optimal for almost all use cases.
Android and uClibc/Busybox systems are very monolithic non-GNU-ish systems. And they FAR outnumber 'traditional' desktop/server Linux (and other Unixes, for that matter).

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Posted Jan 9, 2013 11:01 UTC (Wed) by mgb (guest, #3226) [Link]

It's great that non-monolithic Gnu and Linux make it so easy to replace components.

Systemd 197 released

Posted Jan 9, 2013 12:43 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

> It's great that non-monolithic Gnu and Linux make it so easy to replace components.
It's great iff there is a substantial benefit to be gained by doing so. If there isn't, the ability to replace components only makes things more complex and harder to integrate and test. Poettering understands that, and most 'Unix philosophy' whiners either don't or have very strange ideas about what a substantial benefit is.