Posts by Uncle Timbo 16 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Mar 2013
Small, modular, does one job well. None of which applies to systemd.
systemd is a monolithic behemoth which sticks its nose into way too many things for its stated purpose: being a service manager.
eg One of its jobs is to start a logging service: not BE the logging service.
And when ever it goes wrong, it's an absolute mare to debug. I just counted 1380 .service files on an Ubuntu server install.
Still can't get why one earth Debian & Ubuntu adopted this monstrosity.
It definitely should not be trying to do MORE!!
69/44Mbit.sec here.
But there are a LOT of blackspots on my train journey upto Town. The point being, in the Kent/East Sussex area, you can do a lot worse than EE. In fact everyone else IS worse IME.
Every couple of years at contract renewal time, I get a couple of SIMs on PAYG to try. I've been O2 to 3 to EE. Last time, I stuck with EE because 3 had turned into a huge bunch of muppets and O2 + Vodaphone have naff all coverage where I need it.
Well - except someone DID inspect the code - Redhat and Google - and flagged a bug *before* it was exploited (as far as anyone knows).
So, whilst there might be a notion that FOSS is perfect because Granny checks the apache source while Gentoo is installing, the fact that normal people rarely read source does not mean no-one reads the source.
The whole Unblock/VPN thing is an artificial solution to an artificial problem.
In the Old Days (TM), film prints cost a lot of money, so only so many could be printed for a given film. Hence Regions: Limited stock tiered through the regions.
With digital content, this model is irrelevant - so Movie Studios need to get their fat heads out of the La Brea tar pits and get with the times - once a physical movie has screened past the last region (6?) then just open to flat licensing.
The more they license, the more viewing fees they take, so they cannot really lose if they license the right way. It's not costing them anything to deliver - that's down to Netflix, Google, Amazon etc.
Ah - that'll be why I have 168 Debian servers at our fairly modest university department. Another well known compsci uni department in London runs nothing but Ubuntu (1000 odd installations) and dumped RH years ago when I worked there.
We're not alone - both Debian and Ubuntu are extremely popular across the board. I have no idea which distro wins by numbers - quite possibly RHEL, but to claim it's "the only distro that actually matters" is not correct.
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