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Outlining Thin Linux
snydeq writes: Deep End's Paul Venezia follows up his call for splitting Linux distros in two by arguing that the new shape of the Linux server is thin, light, and fine-tuned to a single purpose. "Those of us who build and maintain large-scale Linux infrastructures would be happy to see a highly specific, highly stable mainstream distro that had no desktop package or dependency support whatsoever, so was not beholden to architectural changes made due to desktop package requirements. When you're rolling out a few hundred Linux VMs locally, in the cloud, or both, you won't manually log into them, much less need any type of graphical support. Frankly, you could lose the framebuffer too; it wouldn't matter unless you were running certain tests," Venezia writes. "It's only a matter of time before a Linux distribution that caters solely to these considerations becomes mainstream and is offered alongside more traditional distributions."
Linux sucks. Windows isn't much better other than the support.
Computing is not where I thought it would be 25 years ago. Users have continually less power, not more.
Linux gives people power in the wrong places. Places people rather let the system do the work. And it's based on Unix and Unix frankly sucks.
Fuck. I wish Plan 9 or Lisp Machines or something else won other than this half-ass kludge.
Fuck it. I'm going to sell my house tomorrow and build a log cabin in Canadian woods before the winter arrives. Out of here, bitches.
This is tech. Any suggestions that there is not one right universal way to accomplish something is a personal insult to one`s preferred technology. After all, all smart people must come to the same correct solution.
And the new systemd friendly ways of doing this are the only possible ways to do it. The ways we have been doing it all along could not possibly work.