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Also systemd: both a system daemon, and a reference to "Systeme D[ebrouille]", a French term for getting things done quick and dirty on the fly: https://en.wik

• cat199 8y ago
  > getting things done quick and dirty on the fly sounds about right.
  • Spivak 8y ago
    systemd is pretty much the exact opposite of that philosophy. Quick and dirty would be an init system that simply executed script files in a directory in asciibetical order and then bolts on a configuration language in the comments of those scritps when they become too hard to manage manually. And then extending that configuration language with X-* options when you need to add new keys but can't be sure a existing software doesn't already use those names differently.
• GuB-42 8y ago
  I am French, I know about "système D" but I never associated it with systemd. "Système D" implies making use of what's available, it is hacking (the good kind). systemd is the opposite, it is nothing like a quick and dirty solution to a problem but a major architecture change that intends to replace these hacks with something cleaner. If the french expression really was the origin of the "systemd" name, it has to be in a twisted kind of way, or some kind of private joke. It would be like calling an electric car "octane" or something like that.
  • JdeBP 8y ago
    Nor should you have. The systemd people themselves have been pointing out for years that it is "something completely different" and not the origin, let alone the correct spelling, of the name. * https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/#spelling https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/#spelling