[HN Gopher] Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical ... ___________________________________________________________________ Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective Author : vezzy-fnord Score : 6 points Date : 2020-05-03 21:41 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.darknedgy.net) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.darknedgy.net) | ratsmack wrote: | >systemd still remains poorly understood and understudied from | both a technical and social level despite paradoxically having | disproportionate levels of attention focused on it. | | This statement makes no sense. It is well understood and has been | studied and critiqued by many, including me. Also, I don't know | what "social level" has to do with anything here. It was just | created for the commercial aspect of Linux and forced into the | relevant distro's by commercial interests... it's just that | simple. | JChase2 wrote: | I'd say software doesn't always win out on it's merits, there's | almost definitely some social aspects regarding what does and | does not get adopted. I do agree the commercial interests | probably played the largest role, though. I think beyond the | initial knee-jerk one might have towards this it's pretty | comprehensive and there's interesting points here that are at | least worth exploring. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-05-03 23:00 UTC)