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The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

Posted Nov 21, 2014 20:35 UTC (Fri) by sorpigal (guest, #36106)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

I think we all know what the real issue is with systemd: The use of the .service extension. Obviously this should have been .daemon; Lennart's Windows-centric worldview clearly motivated the choice of service over daemon, in direct contravention of the uniX Commandments as brought down on magnetic tablets from Mt. Bell.

I believe it was the oft-overlooked 5th commandment; let us recount them all for posterity

I. UNIX(R) is the OS and thou shall run no other OS.
II. Thou shalt not violate AT&T copyrights
III. Thou shalt not violate UNIX(R) trademarks
IV. Time began 1970-01-01T00:00:00+0000
V. Honor Maxwell
VI. Thou shalt not kill -9 unless it doesn't respond to -15
VII. Thou shalt do one thing
VIII. Thou shalt do it well
IX. Everything is a file and a file is a stream of bytes
X. Text is the universal interface

And the apocryphal 11th commandment ("Release early, release often").

Lennart is a devil for trying entice us to violate the 5th commandment, but I believe most of us are sinners by now in any case.


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