Once you go mini...

Nigel Kersten nigel at explanatorygap.net
Wed Feb 25 21:50:22 CET 2015


trimming and responding selectively :)

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:09 PM, ibi sum <ibisum at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > I *love* Debian. It's my first love (at least out of distros that still
> exist), and I think it's absolutely critically important that we continue
> to have strong distributions that don't have corporate interests at heart
> first. (See also: web browsers :/)
>
> Haha, Julian Assanges’ “Debian is pwned by the NSA” statement
> notwithstanding, right .. ;)
>

Yeah I still use SIM cards too :(

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/

> Do you have the same complaints around launchd and think OS X is
> fundamentally flawed? Did you live through the SystemStarter -> launchd
> transition? We're seeing *exactly* the same story play out here, just as we
> did with Solaris and SMF.
>
>
> Yeah, in fact its precisely because of launchd that I hate systemd so much.
>

So I find this really interesting. I believe launchd (and SMF) have been
overwhelming successes, and many of the things that make OS X awesome are
enabled by moving away from the static and explicit dependencies of
SystemStarter to the dynamic world of launchd.

I don't see developers or admins complain about launchd anymore at all.

Why do you hate launchd?
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