[TUHS] Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register

[ron minnich]

I'm curious, as to the original topic of this discussion: can anyone
justify systemd-homed and how it works? Does that even look like 0% of a
unix idea?

On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 8:56 PM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

> yeah, I was on a rant that day, it actually made it into the plan 9
> fortunes
> 'You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time
> of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to
> the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it.   It's worked for
> many people, and it can work for you.  - Ron Minnich
> '
> I'm sorry to say, it still seems to work that way.
>
> I just saw a talk from red hat about putting linux in flash to use as a
> boot loader, for example, and the authors somehow ignored the last 25 years
> and acted like they invented it. Amazing. Turns out 10 minutes is enough.
>
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 6:05 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 08:48:16PM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>> >     > From: Clem Cole
>> >
>> >     > Frankly my major complaint with much of the modern world is that
>> when we
>> >     > ignore the past
>> >
>> > "There are two kinds of fools. One says, 'This is old, therefore it is
>> good';
>> > the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'"  -- Dean Inge,
>> quoted
>> > by John Brunner in "The Shockwave Rider".
>>
>> "Want to be a hero in the computer science world?  Find a good paper from
>> 5 or 10 years ago and rewrite it.  Everyone will think you're a genius"
>>
>>         -- Ron Minnich
>>
>> I paraphrased, Ron, feel free to correct me.
>> --
>> ---
>> Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing
>> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
>>
>
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