From: Bakul Shah via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Cc: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>,
The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:51:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85C11B5C-7AE0-40F6-A348-1771AB9F8B09@iitbombay.org> (raw)
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On Jun 16, 2024, at 10:41 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
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> On Jun 16, 2024, at 8:57 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm curious, as to the original topic of this discussion: can anyone justify systemd-homed and how it works? Does that even look like 0% of a unix idea?
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> I am not a fan of systemd (or linux) and don't follow their excesses/adventures but I am not a fan of how BSD does initialization & brings up services either. They don't quite get all the dependencies right for all the possible combinations of devices etc. Its /etc/rc.d/* system is pretty clunky -- I tend to think any time you are repeating more or less the same boilerplate code in many files, something worth abstracting is hiding in there.
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> I like how launchd treats a service as an object (more than just a program but also the auxiliary files and scripts). For me it was a lightbulb moment (like realizing how a function operates in an environment!). Though I'd probably use s-expr or a simpler config format, not xml (as in launchd plist/SMF manifest).
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> At the other extreme of complexity we have things like Kubernetes. Not a fan.
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> What I want is to be able to map all my computers and compute clusters into a single virtual machine -- where storage, IO and computing resources may be added / removed without taking the whole VM down, and where each display/input user interface is a window on the same underlying VM and all sharing is under my control. Plan9 does a bit of this but that experiment ended too early. Apple is tending in this direction though not cleanly (+ I don't want to rely on a faceless behemoth corp that may trample on my data without even meaning to).
Forgot to mention LOCUS, which was the only distributed Unix compatible OS I am aware of. To anyone who has user/implementer experience, I would love to hear what worked well, what didn't, what was easy to implement, what was very hard and what you wished was added to it.
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2024-06-17 0:48 Noel Chiappa
2024-06-17 1:02 ` Clem Cole
2024-06-17 1:05 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-17 3:56 ` ron minnich
2024-06-17 3:57 ` ron minnich
2024-06-17 5:41 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-06-17 5:51 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS [this message]
2024-06-17 15:56 ` Clem Cole
2024-06-17 16:00 ` Clem Cole
2024-06-17 16:59 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2024-06-17 16:43 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-17 22:49 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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2024-06-20 16:45 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2024-06-20 18:32 ` Kevin Bowling
2024-06-13 14:56 [TUHS] Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2024-06-13 15:33 ` [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2024-06-13 15:35 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' ??? " Larry McVoy
2024-06-13 15:41 ` Alan D. Salewski
2024-06-13 15:55 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-06-13 15:39 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Clem Cole
2024-06-13 16:47 ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
2024-06-13 18:39 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-06-13 18:45 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' ??? " Mychaela Falconia
2024-06-14 8:59 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-06-13 18:54 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Dan Cross
2024-06-12 19:29 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' " Greg A. Woods
2024-06-13 20:03 ` Dan Cross
2024-06-13 17:07 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-14 14:17 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2024-06-16 5:48 ` Alexis
2024-06-15 8:48 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-16 19:44 ` Clem Cole
2024-06-17 0:10 ` Peter Yardley
2024-06-17 0:29 ` Clem Cole
2024-06-17 1:01 ` Alexis
2024-06-17 1:21 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-17 1:25 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-17 1:32 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-17 19:21 ` Stuff Received
2024-06-17 19:28 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-17 22:34 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-06-16 7:57 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-17 23:44 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-18 0:06 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-18 22:44 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-19 2:33 ` David Arnold
2024-06-18 1:52 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-06-18 4:52 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-06-18 22:50 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-18 23:03 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-18 23:27 ` ron minnich
2024-06-19 1:38 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-06-19 1:42 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-19 23:28 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-20 5:01 ` Scot Jenkins via TUHS
2024-06-20 5:09 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-20 5:18 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-20 18:34 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-20 18:41 ` Adam Thornton
2024-06-20 19:59 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-20 20:12 ` ron minnich
2024-06-20 20:22 ` Adam Thornton
2024-06-20 20:29 ` ron minnich
2024-06-21 15:46 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-21 16:06 ` Henry Bent
2024-06-21 16:24 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-21 16:40 ` Henry Bent
2024-06-21 16:52 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-21 17:25 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-21 17:31 ` Phil Budne
2024-06-21 17:55 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-20 20:19 ` Clem Cole
2024-06-20 20:34 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-20 21:00 ` ron minnich
2024-06-20 21:53 ` David Arnold
2024-06-20 22:00 ` ron minnich
2024-06-20 22:11 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-20 22:35 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-21 13:57 ` Stuff Received
2024-06-20 8:05 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-06-19 2:38 ` David Arnold
2024-06-19 22:52 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-19 0:08 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-19 0:46 ` Nevin Liber
2024-06-19 1:00 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-06-19 3:07 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-19 3:14 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-19 3:36 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-19 6:50 ` arnold
2024-06-19 11:28 ` sjenkin
2024-06-19 9:00 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-06-19 13:28 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-19 14:44 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-19 14:53 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-19 15:08 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-19 15:11 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-06-19 15:16 ` ron minnich
2024-06-19 15:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-06-19 22:48 ` Kevin Bowling
2024-06-20 5:14 ` David Arnold
2024-06-20 5:32 ` George Michaelson
2024-06-20 6:37 ` Alexis
2024-06-20 7:07 ` David Arnold
2024-06-21 15:41 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-21 15:38 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-20 20:14 ` Alexander Schreiber
2024-06-16 6:43 ` Wesley Parish
2024-06-16 21:56 ` David Arnold
2024-06-16 23:34 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-16 23:46 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-17 21:40 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-06-17 0:54 ` Åke Nordin
2024-06-18 5:55 ` Alexis
2024-06-18 6:39 ` Michael Kjörling
2024-06-13 19:37 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Alan D. Salewski
2024-06-13 20:05 ` Clem Cole
2024-06-13 20:31 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-06-13 20:06 ` A. P. Garcia
2024-06-13 20:26 ` Jim Capp
2024-06-13 21:35 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' ??? " Larry McVoy
2024-06-14 0:27 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Alexis
2024-06-14 0:59 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' ??? " Larry McVoy
2024-06-14 1:11 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-14 1:42 ` Alexis
2024-06-14 4:22 ` ron minnich
2024-06-14 6:54 ` Angel M Alganza
2024-06-14 7:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-06-14 7:33 ` arnold
2024-06-14 7:34 ` Andy Kosela
2024-06-14 7:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-06-14 11:31 ` Vincenzo Nicosia
2024-06-13 20:26 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Dave Horsfall
2024-06-14 11:32 ` Michael Kjörling
2024-06-14 12:21 ` A. P. Garcia
2024-06-18 12:02 ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
2024-06-23 0:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-06-23 1:47 ` Alexis
2024-06-23 19:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-06-23 20:04 ` Alexander Schreiber
2024-06-24 13:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-06-24 14:21 ` Dan Cross
2024-06-26 7:39 ` Kevin Bowling
2024-06-24 15:03 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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