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|    Message 6,710 of 8,232    |
|    Dennis Katsonis to Gerrit Kuehn    |
|    Re: systemd    |
|    09 Dec 20 21:03:00    |
      TZUTC: -0600       MSGID: 1658.fido_linux@1:124/5016 2435de6d       REPLY: 2:240/12 5fae38b6       PID: Synchronet 3.18c-Linux Nov 25 2020 GCC 7.5.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.11-Linux r3.179 Nov 25 2020 GCC 7.5.0       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> 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.               DK> I moved to Systed with Fedora in 2013 or so, and really, the only        DK> four notable        DK> differences was the system booted a little faster, shut down a lot        DK> faster, the        DK> commands to start a service were slightly different, and the message        DK> log was        DK> accessed through journalctl.               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. On the        GK> other hand, from day one I had a hard time making systemd *not* causing        GK> race conditions and actually wait for things that are required during        GK> boot on these machines, especially network connections and remote        GK> mounts.               DK> but systemd was not that a big deal.               GK> Your mileage may vary.              Indeed it may. I've seen good criticism of it, and I don't really care either       way. I guess for my use case, as a Linux "power user", it wasn't the worry it       was.                     ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!       === MultiMail/Linux v0.52       --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux        * Origin: End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com (1:124/5016)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 154/10       SEEN-BY: 203/0 221/0 1 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 452 550       SEEN-BY: 229/616 664 1016 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 288/100       SEEN-BY: 292/789 854 8125 310/31 317/3 322/757 335/364 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 410/9 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1 2452/250 5020/545       PATH: 124/5016 280/464 292/854 229/426           |
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