On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Russell Coker wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:28:08 PM Peter Ross wrote:
What is the share of desktops running Linux/Gnome? 2 or 3 percent.
Hopefully increasing. Features like multi-seat support should allow some significant increases. The cost savings for schools and corporations with multi seat can be significant.
What is the share of servers running Linux? More than 50 percent in some areas I guess.
How many of them need polkit/systemd/dbus/NetworkManager..? None.
NetworkManager isn't very useful for servers and hardly any have it installed. There's no dependency issues forcing it to be installed.
Tripwire alerted me to a change to consolekit files on a headless DMZ server this morning. I investigated removing consolekit - dependencies dictated that yum was going to then remove 20 or 30 packages that I really didn't want on DMZ servers, and so I was very happy. But then it wanted to remove emacs too :( Probably some bloody dbus integration - I remember talks about that on the emacs-devel list. OK, true, I really should be using emacs on my local node which then connects through tramp to sudo@root@remote, but I'm lazy.
The fast boot of systemd is good for servers. It's been quite a while since the login system of Linux became more complex (well before systemd became popular).
/etc/rc.d/ complex? Repeatable and reliable, I would say. -- Tim Connors