@fabiscafe @okapi espechally in the form of an interactive desktop...

• I could see it valid for multiple shell sessions, but #tmux & #screen cover that pretty well.

• If one has to login into different machines then chances are #aithentification is centralized anyway.

Needless to say #modernizations like #SystemD don't happen because people like #Poettering are "hobbyless", but because the preexisting status-quo (#SysVinit) was slow, inflexible and error-prone by strict linearity and non-parallelization.

• With a literal /etc/init file one can literally get a system to hang due to a mistake (i.e. certain call doesn't get invoked correctly), whereas on #SystemD (and competing solutions like #LaunchD on #macOS and #SMF on #Solaris) your desktop / laptop will continue to noot even if it doesn't have a network connection.

Not to mention as Benno Rice explained: 'Shit just gotmore dynamic!': We don't have that one big ass maingrame and serial terminals, instead we have laptops that may he carried around a campus or traveled with all day and that constantly switch between wireless and wired networks and have VPN tunnels open and whatnot...

@wikinaut

Crazy.

Ich bin ja gespannt, was sich in Zukunft etablieren wird.

Poettering hat sich schon 2014 dazu Gedanken gemacht, als das klassische Paketsystem an seine Grenzen stiess (Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems), was schlussendlich zur Verbreitung der schrecklichen Flatpak- und ähnlicher Containerredundanz geführt hat.

Kürzlich hat er ein weiteres Essay veröffentlicht (Fitting Everything Together):

https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html

#flatpak #poettering #linux #deb