[kwlug-disc] What is all this about systemd?

[William Park]

Down memory lane... my days of hand-assembling 68000.  :-)
-- 
William

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 04:01:11PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Yes, and it will then implement a virtualization layer for the CPU and a
> hardware abstraction layer, and everything will running inside systemd.
> 
> Then suddenly someone will 'discover' that running on bare metal is faster,
> then the pendulum swings the other way.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:51 PM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm... after eliminating dhcpd, named, httpd, samba, crond, atd, ntpd, etc
> > (anything ending in 'd'), systemd will handle memory management, process
> > scheduling, etc.  After that, systemd will take over shell.
> > I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
> > --
> > William
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 01:05:31PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > > The just released systemd version, 216, has:
> > >
> > > - A new resolved (a full DNS caching daemon)
> > > - Full user space VT to replace the kernel VT
> > >
> > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc2Nzk
> > >
> > > Perfect example for the Inner Platform effect: something else sucks, let
> > us
> > > re-implement it in an awesome way, oh, then another thing, why not this
> > > other thing as well, and another, then another, and we end up with ....
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
> >
> >
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