Google supports his argument. "systemd sucks" has over 35 thousand results right now.
He wrote another blog post, another in a long line of blog posts by people who are annoyed by or don't want or actually hate systemd for one reason or another. Ignoring them all doesn't make it not true -- there are a lot of users who are unhappy with systemd.
More importantly, there are a *lot* of users who wouldn't know the difference and who haven't had a reason to notice the change at all. Those people can't be cited as 'supporters' because they couldn't care less if its rc.d or systemd or djb's svscan.
But the problem isn't the cables in most cases, its the service. I no longer have to deal with Cogeco's policies, I get Teksavvy's instead. Cogeco still gets paid, although obviously not as much as before -- and Teksavvy becomes a much larger customer of Cogeco's and therefore has more pull to get things fixed that need it.
You might want to look up what 'socialism' means... it refers to "a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."
The problem of course is that slightly more socialist countries like Canada or some of northern Europe are just *barely* socialist, having socialized medicine, schooling, care for the poor, etc. but not nearly so much as advised by Marx. Unfortunately the American anti-socialist view sees these very useful values as being a slippery slope into 1970s communism and reject all of it.
Throwing out the baby with the bath water, so to speak.
I agree, watching from north of the border here in Canada, I find all these rants more disturbing than amusing.
i'm also frequently confused as a Christian how it is that American Christianity has aligned itself with the selfish "don't help others" ethos rather than the more socialist "lets get together and help each other" view of the world.
Religion aside, the whole thing is just silly -- no country can be great when is nothing but individuals.
NB here in Canada, the large cable and telephone providers basically *must* license their connections to your home to other service providers. This is a regulation of course, and not just a 'free market' concept, but it does mean not having sixteen companies all trying to run their own copper down your street.
My local service provider is Cogeco for instance, and I switched to Teksavvy without having a single piece of coax changed in my house. Teksavvy pays Cogeco, Cogeco still maintains the wire, and I pay Teksavvy instead of Cogeco.
Does this fix all the problems? No, but it does mean that ISPs have to deal with customer service or simply be switched off by users.
You're either confused or you've read some purposely disseminated misinformation. Please do more research so you understand the actual issue, and please share where you got this terrible data from so we can criticize it at the source.
Net neutrality has nothing to do with what you're arguing about.
Hi, I'm a volunteer for the Poetic License bureau, and we'd like to inform you that you've violated rule #8; taking something too literally when an obvious point is being made.
The battle is between the distros who decided to ship systemd and the users who didn't realize they were having their OS tools they know how to use thrown out.
The vast majority of users are not involved in the development of their distros... they find out the hard way *after* things become default, like this.
I'm confused; you reboot your laptop? Mine runs in suspended state continually... I just open the lid and hit escape to bring up the password dialog a couple seconds later.
I run remote GUI apps over ssh all the time, don't you?
ssh -X remotehost is a fantastic command that people should really learn. I don't want to run a 'desktop' in a window on my desktop, I just want to run applications.
That said, VNC does have an advantage over X11 forwarding -- it survives restarts of the server side (the one you type on in X terminology) without additional fuss.
You can't list all the things systemd does in one line, it does not do "one thing well"... in fact its frequently touted benefit is that it does so many things.
"How WP is run, is supposed to be decided by the community." citation please.
I don't recall this ever being true. Wikipedia is about freely contributing to something with rules and an architecture that's not always subject to democracy. You're always free to mirror it elsewhere and do your own thing any time though.
Actually if you read a lot of Wikipedia articles and history on them, the world was wrong and the system usually works.
The rules are there for a reason, and contentious subjects have issues (cf. Abortion, Israel, Nazi, etc.) but for the most part articles grow and become better and more thoroughly fact-checked with time.
Part of this is the much-hated reference requirement -- all facts in a Wikipedia page must have an external source to back them up. This rule alone causes a huge amount of strife among those who don't understand, but it also creates the most harmony by requiring reputable citations.
Its pretty easy to figure out why the page was deleted: "Lacks reliable independent secondary sources to establish notability as required by WP:GNG. Every source is WP:PRIMARY. Every one of them. Googling turned up posts to online discussion forums but nothing useful. Additionally, I note that the decision to delete at the previous AfD was unanimous for the same reasons. Msnicki (talk) 22:37, 23 August 2013 (UTC)"
Wikipedia is for documenting information found somewhere else authoritative... if the Wikipedia article *is* the authority, it gets deleted. Its very simple.
You must get really confused when you look up the speed ratings on tire side walls, what with how you seem to think cars can't safely exceed 70 or 80 mph.
If a semi can do a given speed without going off the road, your properly maintained vehicle most certainly should be able to with its much lower center of gravity and better suspension.
We have quite a few municipalities in the area that reside in valleys, so the speed limit drops by nearly half part way up or down a hill in each direction. Its incredibly annoying to be going down a hill at 80 and have to drop to 50 while accelerating (gravity).
Actually here in Ontario you can be pulled over for impeding traffic if you're in the way, no matter how legal your speed was, as it should be.
Drive in the right lane, let people pass on the left. Its their business to go faster, not yours. Your responsibility as a driver is partly to stay out of everyone else's way, you're not an island out there.
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Google supports his argument. "systemd sucks" has over 35 thousand results right now.
He wrote another blog post, another in a long line of blog posts by people who are annoyed by or don't want or actually hate systemd for one reason or another. Ignoring them all doesn't make it not true -- there are a lot of users who are unhappy with systemd.
More importantly, there are a *lot* of users who wouldn't know the difference and who haven't had a reason to notice the change at all. Those people can't be cited as 'supporters' because they couldn't care less if its rc.d or systemd or djb's svscan.
I'm still installing CentOS 5 on almost all systems right now, I can't believe the mess that systemd causes me in testing...
Imagine if you ran "cp -ar stuff /somewhere/else/" and it returned true, and you had to continually run 'cpcheck' to see if the copy succeeded or not.
The default behaviour should be to return whether the service started or not when you start a service.
No you don't, you just need to install the X application you want to run and the xorg-x11-xauth package so you can run 'ssh -X remote command-name'
That's all.
Your GUI point aside though, I agree that systemd is way too big for a PID 1 process.
But the problem isn't the cables in most cases, its the service. I no longer have to deal with Cogeco's policies, I get Teksavvy's instead. Cogeco still gets paid, although obviously not as much as before -- and Teksavvy becomes a much larger customer of Cogeco's and therefore has more pull to get things fixed that need it.
You might want to look up what 'socialism' means ... it refers to "a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."
The problem of course is that slightly more socialist countries like Canada or some of northern Europe are just *barely* socialist, having socialized medicine, schooling, care for the poor, etc. but not nearly so much as advised by Marx. Unfortunately the American anti-socialist view sees these very useful values as being a slippery slope into 1970s communism and reject all of it.
Throwing out the baby with the bath water, so to speak.
cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
I agree, watching from north of the border here in Canada, I find all these rants more disturbing than amusing.
i'm also frequently confused as a Christian how it is that American Christianity has aligned itself with the selfish "don't help others" ethos rather than the more socialist "lets get together and help each other" view of the world.
Religion aside, the whole thing is just silly -- no country can be great when is nothing but individuals.
NB here in Canada, the large cable and telephone providers basically *must* license their connections to your home to other service providers. This is a regulation of course, and not just a 'free market' concept, but it does mean not having sixteen companies all trying to run their own copper down your street.
My local service provider is Cogeco for instance, and I switched to Teksavvy without having a single piece of coax changed in my house. Teksavvy pays Cogeco, Cogeco still maintains the wire, and I pay Teksavvy instead of Cogeco.
Does this fix all the problems? No, but it does mean that ISPs have to deal with customer service or simply be switched off by users.
How much time have you spent managing backbone BGP routers? Just curious ...
You're either confused or you've read some purposely disseminated misinformation. Please do more research so you understand the actual issue, and please share where you got this terrible data from so we can criticize it at the source.
Net neutrality has nothing to do with what you're arguing about.
Hi, I'm a volunteer for the Poetic License bureau, and we'd like to inform you that you've violated rule #8; taking something too literally when an obvious point is being made.
You're welcome.
Except they do http://www.forbes.com/sites/je... ... even if they shouldn't.
The battle is between the distros who decided to ship systemd and the users who didn't realize they were having their OS tools they know how to use thrown out.
The vast majority of users are not involved in the development of their distros ... they find out the hard way *after* things become default, like this.
I'm confused; you reboot your laptop? ... I just open the lid and hit escape to bring up the password dialog a couple seconds later.
Mine runs in suspended state continually
I run remote GUI apps over ssh all the time, don't you?
ssh -X remotehost is a fantastic command that people should really learn. I don't want to run a 'desktop' in a window on my desktop, I just want to run applications.
That said, VNC does have an advantage over X11 forwarding -- it survives restarts of the server side (the one you type on in X terminology) without additional fuss.
I use daemontools on my servers to auto-restart services and can't stand working with systemd as-is yet. Alas.
You can't list all the things systemd does in one line, it does not do "one thing well" ... in fact its frequently touted benefit is that it does so many things.
"How WP is run, is supposed to be decided by the community." citation please.
I don't recall this ever being true. Wikipedia is about freely contributing to something with rules and an architecture that's not always subject to democracy. You're always free to mirror it elsewhere and do your own thing any time though.
Actually if you read a lot of Wikipedia articles and history on them, the world was wrong and the system usually works.
The rules are there for a reason, and contentious subjects have issues (cf. Abortion, Israel, Nazi, etc.) but for the most part articles grow and become better and more thoroughly fact-checked with time.
Part of this is the much-hated reference requirement -- all facts in a Wikipedia page must have an external source to back them up. This rule alone causes a huge amount of strife among those who don't understand, but it also creates the most harmony by requiring reputable citations.
Its pretty easy to figure out why the page was deleted:
"Lacks reliable independent secondary sources to establish notability as required by WP:GNG. Every source is WP:PRIMARY. Every one of them. Googling turned up posts to online discussion forums but nothing useful. Additionally, I note that the decision to delete at the previous AfD was unanimous for the same reasons. Msnicki (talk) 22:37, 23 August 2013 (UTC)"
Wikipedia is for documenting information found somewhere else authoritative... if the Wikipedia article *is* the authority, it gets deleted. Its very simple.
You must get really confused when you look up the speed ratings on tire side walls, what with how you seem to think cars can't safely exceed 70 or 80 mph.
Take an aggressive driving course; "normal" cars are capable of some really impressive driving manoeuvres if you know what you're doing.
If a semi can do a given speed without going off the road, your properly maintained vehicle most certainly should be able to with its much lower center of gravity and better suspension.
We have quite a few municipalities in the area that reside in valleys, so the speed limit drops by nearly half part way up or down a hill in each direction. Its incredibly annoying to be going down a hill at 80 and have to drop to 50 while accelerating (gravity).
Actually here in Ontario you can be pulled over for impeding traffic if you're in the way, no matter how legal your speed was, as it should be.
Drive in the right lane, let people pass on the left. Its their business to go faster, not yours. Your responsibility as a driver is partly to stay out of everyone else's way, you're not an island out there.