systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits
systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits
Posted Apr 26, 2012 2:59 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)In reply to: systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits by drag
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Quality has a new name
>> There are a number of folk in the Linux ecosystem pushing for a small core of tightly coupled components to make the core of a modern linux distro. The idea is that this "core distro" can evolve in sync with the kernel, and generally move fast. This is both good for the overall platform and very hard to implement for the "universal" distros.
> Not really. All operating systems need to do a more-or-less the same job regardless of what you plan on doing with them. It doesn't really matter what you want to do with them.
> Not really. All operating systems need to do a more-or-less the same job regardless of what you plan on doing with them. It doesn't really matter what you want to do with them.
I think Martin meant something else by "universal" -- he meant that Debian, unlike say Fedora and Ubuntu, support multiple different ways of providing the same feature, even in the base OS -- different kernels (Linux, FreeBSD, GNU Hurd), different init systems, etc., and thus life gets harder for them when people push for tighter integration.