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|    Tony Langdon to Gerrit Kuehn    |
|    Re: systemd    |
|    09 Dec 20 19:43:00    |
      TZUTC: 1100       MSGID: 1558.fido-linux@3:633/410 2435d3bb       REPLY: 2:240/12 5fae38b6       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux Nov 3 2019 GCC 4.6.3       TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Linux r3.146 Nov 3 2019 GCC 4.6.3       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> On 12-08-20 13:16, Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-               GK> Hello Dennis!               GK> 08 Dec 20 21:54, Dennis Katsonis wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:                      DK> Systemd isn't that bad. It's much better than Lennart's pulseaudio,        DK> now THAT sucks.               GK> Tell me about it. OSS always worked fine for me. So did JACK.              OSS worked, but limited in some ways. ALSA generally works well for my needs.        JACK looks good, but I've never actually used it, even though it's been around       for donkeys years.               GK> As I said, this wholly depends on your use case. If you're running a        GK> notebook, I totally see the benefit. However, I have mainly servers and        GK> a few workstations to maintain. These are not booted for days, weeks or        GK> even months, and they hardly ever change their network settings. If        GK> they boot, hardware detection alone might take minutes, so I absolutely        GK> don't care about saving a few seconds afterwards during boot.        GK> On the other hand, from day one I had a hard time making systemd *not*        GK> causing race conditions and actually wait for things that are required        GK> during boot on these machines, especially network connections and        GK> remote mounts.              I don't have a need for everything to try starting all at once, and on spinning       metal, that can sometimes take longer (*cough* Windows *cough). The thing I do       like about SystemV is that the login prompt comes up after everything has       started.              But as I said in the last message, I haven't had any issues with systemd.                     ... Speed doesn't kill. Stopping very fast kills.       === MultiMail/Win v0.51       --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux        * Origin: Freeway BBS Bendigo,Australia freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 226/30 227/114 702 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 452 550 616 664 1016 240/5832 249/206 317 400       SEEN-BY: 292/854 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/0 267 280 281 384 410 412       SEEN-BY: 633/509 640/1384 712/848       PATH: 633/410 280 229/426           |
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