<div dir="ltr">2 observations...<div><br></div><div>First, for someone who didnt have time to comment on it, you put quite a bit of time into it.</div><div><br></div><div>Second, didnt someone tell me this was a LOW traffic list ?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:13 AM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I wrote:<br>
<br>
> Well, not a dissection, but a few comments:<br>
<br>
_And_ the inevitable follow-up, after some guy had decided to argue for<br>
reasons unclear (possibly a spinal reflex):<br>
<br>
<br>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:38:47 -0800<br>
To: <a href="mailto:tech@golug.org" target="_blank">tech@golug.org</a><br>
From: Rick Moen via Tech <<a href="mailto:tech@golug.org" target="_blank">tech@golug.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [GoLugTech] Look what I found - "The Tragedy of systemd!"<br>
<br>
Quoting David Krauser via Tech (<a href="mailto:tech@golug.org" target="_blank">tech@golug.org</a>):<br>
<br>
> I didn't read his talk as propaganda.<br>
<br>
Well, to reiterate what I already made a point of stressing a couple of<br>
times, neither did I. (To repeat:) What I said was that if one _did_<br>
set out to create a propaganda fluff piece, it would share many notable<br>
features.<br>
<br>
> His omissions could simply be explained by the fact that this was a<br>
> short talk....<br>
<br>
Um, 47 minutes? ;-><br>
<br>
That's a standard talk length for <a href="http://linux.conf.au" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">linux.conf.au</a>, if memory serves --<br>
basically, a hour slot with some time for questions and a few minutes<br>
between panels. IMO, the nature and extent of omissions is pretty<br>
notable, though I certainly was _not, repeat not_ calling them<br>
nefarious, just notable.<br>
<br>
He had absolutely no obligation to give any broader talk, of course.<br>
For example, he had no obligation to mention that solutions to service<br>
management have been commonplace in Linux and the other *ixes for<br>
at least a decade or two. At my recent employer, a large Internet<br>
content firm, we'd been using supervisord for that purpose for long ages,<br>
and every sysadmin who's been in that line of business is familiar with<br>
either that or monit or daemontools or any of several others.<br>
<br>
So, when we sysadmins see people like Mr. Rice give talks saying 'we<br>
need to solve the service management problem', we have to wonder where<br>
he's been hiding while we _did that_. For decades.<br>
<br>
Or, to put it another way, 'Hey, Mr. Rice, what exactly are supervisord<br>
and monit and daemontools, then? Chopped liver?' (I'm omitting<br>
relatively recent additions like runit and s6 and procer and freedt and<br>
daemontools-encore from that list, but they're not chopped liver,<br>
either.)<br>
<br>
<br>
> The merits of systemd itself seem somewhat irrelevant to his points.<br>
<br>
Um, actually, the use-cases where systemd shows strengths occupied about<br>
the later half of the talk.<br>
<br>
> What I got out of his talk:<br>
<br>
Yes, well said. But:<br>
<br>
> I'd agree with those ideas.<br>
<br>
Those points seem fine if you are unaware of what is already in common<br>
use in exactly the areas where Mr. Rice claims we 'need to solve' this<br>
and that. But frankly, I expected better of an old-school BSD guy.<br>
(I'm actually an old-school BSD guy, myself, having run 386BSD before<br>
moving to Linux. Not that I'm any expert, but I've been around.)<br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
conspire mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br>
<a href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br>R "Texx" Woodworth<br>Sysadmin, E-Postmaster, IT Molewhacker<br>"Face down, 9 edge 1st, roadkill on the information superdata highway..."<br></div>