“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuller

  • 0 Posts
  • 123 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: August 25th, 2025

help-circle



















    • It violates the whole does one thing principle. this is of course much more than a beauty-related offense. Modular design is central to good software engineering.
    • Log files are no longer simple text files you can watch, grep, or work with – again violating a major Unix principle and making a zillion other things that would “just work”, have to be done with special systemd hooks/options/yadda
    • The problems it solves could have been solved with a reasonably well contained change to SysV init, and probably made optional. Single-user setups don’t need server-farm complexity.