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You might be giving Lennart too much credit. As the author of the article points out, Lennart didn't invent PulseAudio and systemd so much as he ripped them o
by darkpuma 8y ago
You might be giving Lennart too much credit. As the author of the article points out, Lennart didn't invent PulseAudio and systemd so much as he ripped them off (poorly) from coreaudio and launchd. To compare him to any inventor seems too flattering.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoAlso not a huge fan but it works better than a bunch of shell scripts.
- flukus 8y agoDon't you still have to resort to shell scripts for anything slightly complicated (mounting a drive on a specific network connection) and just have systemd invoke them?
- arminiusreturns 8y agoSo far this is a particular thing I have run into. DevOps (yelling): no more shell scripts Devs: systemd fstab is all kinds of fucked for nfsv4 Devs: Writes super complicated script to mount Me/DevOps: Makes ansible script to make systemd mount paired with service that is basically a wrapper for... a shell script...
- michaelmrose 8y agoBecause runit openrc perp and s6 aren't a thing?
- JdeBP 8y agoDon't forget the Service Access Facility. * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/unix-service-access-facility.html http://jdebp.eu./FGA/unix-service-access-facility.html * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html
- darkpuma 8y agoIt works worse than launchd, which Lennart ripped off. My point here is that calling a ripoff artist an inventor is being far too flattering. (And for the record I wouldn't call Torvalds an inventor either, even though he has more sense than Lennart.)
- redwall_hp 8y agoAvahi is just a reimplementation of something Apple developed, too. Apple developed zeroconf networking, with their implementation of the standard being Bonjour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software)#Avahi_vs._Bonjour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software)#Avahi_vs._Bon...