-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 09/28/2014 at 07:10 PM, green wrote:
> Jonathan Dowland wrote at 2014-09-28 13:05 -0500: > >> The more and more I read people objecting to the modularity of >> systemd, the more I am reminded of the Tanenbaum/Torvalds debate >> re microkernels. > > It does seem to be related, though not so much due to systemd > being modular as monolithic. systemd introduces a large amount of > "core code" at PID 1 that needs to be stable and reliable. > > Microkernels, as I understand, aim to support a highly modular > system *design* but are themselves minimal (Minix 3 has about 4000 > lines of executable kernel code). This "core code" can be more > easily audited and maintained. Servers, eg. device drivers, are > supervised and can not bring down the system (in the context of > the kernel). (See > <http://www.minix3.org/other/reliability.html>.) > > So yes, perhaps one major reason some people dislike systemd (too > much "core code") is the same reason some people like the > microkernel design. Which I suspect was his point - because the non-microkernel Linux won that fight, in practice... - -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUKKKKAAoJEASpNY00KDJrKtQP/A9BQaOQV5aWYtXgjqwjP2Bg pFQVCPjm547RLyqarvJiY5MaokCyk0ummKtKaTewAw71rOCPln/m3ezOpfCpYrFf g+kksAyGXMBjWyas+JqrmNlpLHvq9n6Dtqah4jgChTGNb7EqX9kZCArhbE7GSTUt E8fYXnZzk8xag2ZFCLiA9jK0NV98BAnpDoisUAd4QxikUlR/YzRfBFlilc/8EX84 66qAHll61a1gvQwvsqploBdcFOyx+pW1SutcsW65+ljpwGFs2uabSYRQOeL6sgWF zmKVpcTrPsfgkapN3FXooxMVda84zu4UH/oHfQO45qVpLKwY6JlcJiFls+Vu4XnY nbZx1WeOIZ3BtSWAn2jq8EUV/Yo4AV1xlwXsXR7hMV4TLdaSPmkIi0hzq0xMtCsa wAOLxkdGRbFS6Ix2JOOdZ9B074C8NE15YM5OKgmDPJWD/nrMd4wga74LpjmLUCr8 f7SOH+b6P3rW+W3aJDQZ5RHtj32oyiPafpNXVecTInLX5ASW48WsedMKkCZcj095 4xDM3/OGuVknGBompG5xo5xqPcSFvRgNpKiCbSaUEwqSYn5oogC9MiO+xniCNjXB pa+u1QfhRK7CLTGWLU/0HoS1OrXctMIsjH87YvHlaYhDg0PHifwcSKqZnW11kBpg 69AAjGOY8NdoYm1TZuA3 =6aKV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5428a28b.6030...@fastmail.fm
