A fully functional Systemd has about 69 or so binaries. That's hardly monolithic.
It is when they're all tied together so tightly that you're forced to take all or nothing.
That's the fundamental problem with systemd. This man's last major project was pulseaudio, which most Linux users know only because an entire generation learned that it was the first thing they should uninstall after installing a new Linux release. Years later, it works OK, but only after years of suck beforehand.
You don't get that 'just unininstall it' option with systemd.
Perhaps this article might better be titled "Want better gas mileage? Don't drive like a gashole."
Duh. When you have a tiny engine, you have to thrash the crap out of it to get anywhere. Which is probably the point of this article... the tests are unrealistic for small engines because they don't drive it the way a real driver would.
Today, yes. But I'm pretty sure that Linux originated with the old Unix idea of all drivers being compiled into the kernel. I remember years on my Sun workstation of the same vintage as the first Linux releases, having to edit a C file to add new driver entry points and then compile it and relink the kernel in order to support a new device.
To be fair, Pulseaudio seems to work OK now, and something like it was needed.
It was just the first five years or so that it sucked.
Similarly, something like systemd probably has its uses, even though they're not clear to me. It's just easier to live with five years of sucky audio than five years of a sucky init system.
Redhat, who I believe are funding systemd development, is a server OS company. Guess what doesn't happen on my server? Yes, random hardware appearing and disappearing while it sits there for years running one app.
Systemd has no obvious benefit to servers, but Redhat are pushing it anyway. It could be useful on embedded systems, but, in my experience, they're either massively cut down and use traditional init to start the two or three things they run, or they use some custom init system of their own. Could be useful on desktops, but about the only things I can plug in dynamically are USB devices, which can be handled without much hassle. Faster boot time? Well, my laptop already boots in a few seconds, and my servers spend six minutes in the BIOS before they start booting. Tablets? Maybe, but does Android actually use init scripts, or did they roll their own startup?
It just looks like a solution in search of a problem, with a ton of complexity that 99% of users don't need. But it's being pushed on everyone, anyway.
No, I believe you'll find Mr Coward thinks no-one should be in charge, because they'll only make things worse, and loot the poor while they fly from dasha to dasha in their executive jets.
Why, exactly, would warmer weather make food production harder? Do you really think that a longer growing season in Canada would be bad for global food production?
And SUVs are everywhere, they're just smaller than Suburbans, based on cars rather than trucks, and get 30-40mpg instead of 10-20. Besides which, the SUV craze was a reaction to the Glorious Central Planners demanding that cars become more efficient, which led to the demise of big stationwagons, which led to Ordinary Everyday Folks (you know, the ones who vote the Glorious Central Planners into office) buying less efficient, less safe truck-based SUVs instead.
And there are still plenty of laptops that come with less than 4 GB of RAM, such as the ASUS Transformer Book.
Which has nothing to do with running 64-bit software. There are plenty of reasons to run 64-bit with less than 4GB of RAM, particularly on x86, where you get twice as many registers.
Microsoft should have scrapped 32-bit Windows long ago. It's just another example of how out of date they are.
I'm guessing you could probably 3D print most of the body and rotors, then add the electronics, camera and motors. But those would probably be the most expensive parts, anyway.
(And, yes, I do realize you were making a joke, but I'd imagine that someone out there with a 3D printer is already building their own version of such a device)
Unless you're picked as the new Anointed One by Big Puiblisher, you also have to do your own marketing; the only 'marketing' they'll give most writers is putting your book on a book store shelf, if you're lucky enough to get a print run and they don't go straight to ebooks. And few people look for a publisher's logo on a book before they buy it.
Some genres have almost entirely gone self-published these days. Romance used to be one of the few genres where publishers actually had a valuable brand, but today many of the top romance writers appear to be skipping publishers entirely and releasing books themselves now they see how much more money they can make without a publisher to take most of it.
And what happens to those 'thousand small businesses' when the subsidies go away and the subsidized company moves on to some other state that offers them a better deal?
I've seen it in the UK. The first time appeared to be a couple of Americans in a rental car going one way around the roundabout while about twenty other cars were trying to go the opposite direction.
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A fully functional Systemd has about 69 or so binaries. That's hardly monolithic.
It is when they're all tied together so tightly that you're forced to take all or nothing.
That's the fundamental problem with systemd. This man's last major project was pulseaudio, which most Linux users know only because an entire generation learned that it was the first thing they should uninstall after installing a new Linux release. Years later, it works OK, but only after years of suck beforehand.
You don't get that 'just unininstall it' option with systemd.
You haven't used a Linux release since 1993, have you?
Oh, yeah, and /etc isn't really an unpredictable place to find configuration files in the unlikely even that you need to touch one.
The conservatives seem to want to turtle and ban all travel from those nations ... which would, of course, be a death knell for any aide workers traveling there to help out..
Yeah, true. Because it's not like America has a freaking huge Air Force which can fly in and out those who actually have a good reason to go there.
New DX versions often require new hardware, and you can't just stick a few wires on the board to add new instructions to the graphics units.
Besides which, Microsoft seem to have decided that they're going to force you to buy a new OS to support new DX versions in future, so who cares?
Probably stuffed full of ethanol, to keep corn farmers employed. Might as well put water in your tank.
What possible benefit is there to taxing fuel, other than to hand more money to the government to waste?
Oh, yeah, I forgot, it lets you force people into small cars they don't want, or force poor people onto buses.
Why do you hate the poor? What did they ever do to you?
Perhaps this article might better be titled "Want better gas mileage? Don't drive like a gashole."
Duh. When you have a tiny engine, you have to thrash the crap out of it to get anywhere. Which is probably the point of this article... the tests are unrealistic for small engines because they don't drive it the way a real driver would.
You do realize that forking one piece of software is much eaiser than forking a complete distro, right?
Today, yes. But I'm pretty sure that Linux originated with the old Unix idea of all drivers being compiled into the kernel. I remember years on my Sun workstation of the same vintage as the first Linux releases, having to edit a C file to add new driver entry points and then compile it and relink the kernel in order to support a new device.
To be fair, Pulseaudio seems to work OK now, and something like it was needed.
It was just the first five years or so that it sucked.
Similarly, something like systemd probably has its uses, even though they're not clear to me. It's just easier to live with five years of sucky audio than five years of a sucky init system.
Yes, because going to System/Administration/Services and disabling it is such hard work.
Oh, sorry, I forgot, that's the old, outdated Gnome 2. They probably removed it from Gnome 3 because it was 'confusing to users'.
Redhat, who I believe are funding systemd development, is a server OS company. Guess what doesn't happen on my server? Yes, random hardware appearing and disappearing while it sits there for years running one app.
Systemd has no obvious benefit to servers, but Redhat are pushing it anyway. It could be useful on embedded systems, but, in my experience, they're either massively cut down and use traditional init to start the two or three things they run, or they use some custom init system of their own. Could be useful on desktops, but about the only things I can plug in dynamically are USB devices, which can be handled without much hassle. Faster boot time? Well, my laptop already boots in a few seconds, and my servers spend six minutes in the BIOS before they start booting. Tablets? Maybe, but does Android actually use init scripts, or did they roll their own startup?
It just looks like a solution in search of a problem, with a ton of complexity that 99% of users don't need. But it's being pushed on everyone, anyway.
In Liberal World, you'll have the individual right to do whatever the Central Planners tell you. Because they know what's best for you.
No, I believe you'll find Mr Coward thinks no-one should be in charge, because they'll only make things worse, and loot the poor while they fly from dasha to dasha in their executive jets.
Why, exactly, would warmer weather make food production harder? Do you really think that a longer growing season in Canada would be bad for global food production?
And SUVs are everywhere, they're just smaller than Suburbans, based on cars rather than trucks, and get 30-40mpg instead of 10-20. Besides which, the SUV craze was a reaction to the Glorious Central Planners demanding that cars become more efficient, which led to the demise of big stationwagons, which led to Ordinary Everyday Folks (you know, the ones who vote the Glorious Central Planners into office) buying less efficient, less safe truck-based SUVs instead.
So you presumably also believe that, when the government buys a ticket for an airline flight, that's 'socialized air travel'?
And there are still plenty of laptops that come with less than 4 GB of RAM, such as the ASUS Transformer Book.
Which has nothing to do with running 64-bit software. There are plenty of reasons to run 64-bit with less than 4GB of RAM, particularly on x86, where you get twice as many registers.
Microsoft should have scrapped 32-bit Windows long ago. It's just another example of how out of date they are.
Uh, the WHO have been arguing against suspending airline flights into infected countries.
Isn't there some sort of quarantine in effect or are we just letting people fly back and forth between Ebola outbreak areas all willy-nilly?
That would probably violate their human rights. Or something.
If you just want to run a single touchscreen app on a cheap tablet, why would you want Windows?
For an over-the-shoulder view, just run a power cable from a battery belt to the drone :).
I'm guessing you could probably 3D print most of the body and rotors, then add the electronics, camera and motors. But those would probably be the most expensive parts, anyway.
(And, yes, I do realize you were making a joke, but I'd imagine that someone out there with a 3D printer is already building their own version of such a device)
Unless you're picked as the new Anointed One by Big Puiblisher, you also have to do your own marketing; the only 'marketing' they'll give most writers is putting your book on a book store shelf, if you're lucky enough to get a print run and they don't go straight to ebooks. And few people look for a publisher's logo on a book before they buy it.
Some genres have almost entirely gone self-published these days. Romance used to be one of the few genres where publishers actually had a valuable brand, but today many of the top romance writers appear to be skipping publishers entirely and releasing books themselves now they see how much more money they can make without a publisher to take most of it.
And what happens to those 'thousand small businesses' when the subsidies go away and the subsidized company moves on to some other state that offers them a better deal?
I've seen it in the UK. The first time appeared to be a couple of Americans in a rental car going one way around the roundabout while about twenty other cars were trying to go the opposite direction.