On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:33:31AM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) writes:
Compared to Debian 6, or compared to what you remember booting being like five years ago?
Apropos, this just appeared on LWN: http://web.dodds.net/~vorlon/wiki/blog/Upstart_in_Debian/
wow. that's amazing! compared to sysvinit+startpar, systemd improves boot time by 1.1 seconds, and upstart improves it by 0.62 seconds. that's really worth getting excited about. I can save around a second every six months or so!!!! and just remember kids, shell scripts are bad. lennart pottering says so...and what unix really needs is yet another minimalist domain-specific configuration language that requires you to learn its peculiarities and limitations. also, unix sucks and linux should be made to work more like mac or nextstep, because grotesquely long variable and setting names, 500+ character command-lines for trivial changes, and piss-poor documentation are a great way of forcing everyone to use a pretty-but-limited GUI to configure their systems. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>