for any service I ran that I cared about or was responsible for (not shovelware that came with the Linux distro.) Of course I liked qmail too and used it to build something that's nearly indescribable but was kinda like a webcrawler but for email and could send and receive emails to do information gathering and dissemination tasks asynchronously over a long time.
> The unix philosophy cries out: is this the end of Linux (or, as many are calling it, GNU plus Linux)?
I still see no counterarguments here. Meanwhile, systemd, like cancer, is eating Linux from the inside, breaking its flexibility and therefore future resilence:
Yeah, OK. The same way Windows has been a success I guess.
I've come around. And I used to be a serious djb cultist who used
https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
for any service I ran that I cared about or was responsible for (not shovelware that came with the Linux distro.) Of course I liked qmail too and used it to build something that's nearly indescribable but was kinda like a webcrawler but for email and could send and receive emails to do information gathering and dissemination tasks asynchronously over a long time.
> The unix philosophy cries out: is this the end of Linux (or, as many are calling it, GNU plus Linux)?
I still see no counterarguments here. Meanwhile, systemd, like cancer, is eating Linux from the inside, breaking its flexibility and therefore future resilence:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hard_dependencies_on_systemd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918448
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889792
I would be less anxious on the question if another OS adopted it.
It is fantastic for Linux, but it is not really portable.
I think there was an attempt at OpenBSD.
https://lobste.rs/s/jx3cr6/initware_systemd_fork_runs_on_ope...