Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 5, 2014 20:37 UTC (Fri) by sjj (guest, #2020)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by mrdocs
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

+1000000

I haven't really thought this thing through but I'm cautiously positive by default on rethinking systems. I do like systemd because it brings sanity into the twisted nest of hacks that is SysV init.

That being said, this smells of some kind of desktop environment oriented hackery I'm not at all sure is useful on stable servers.

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 5, 2014 21:03 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I could see something like this tied to something like Docker for building large-scale systems, using these read-only mounts to efficiently cache whatever base OS the container wants