Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:52:40 +1100
Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com> wrote:
> Which is fine for you, and I can understand and appreciate that, for my
> own personal computers my sentiments are similar. However my business
> purposes involve meeting SLAs so reboots once or twice a year can cost a
> lot of money - so in those circumstances a few minutes makes a lot of
> difference. Perhaps that's not something you care about - or it's just
> convenient to ignore until your bank/phone/stockbroker/shopping is
> interrupted as a result. Perhaps you simply put your "needs" before
> those of others - assuredly inadvertently.
>
> Given the interest displayed by "home users", and those that develop for
> embedded platforms, in fast boot times, I suspect your needs aren't
> stereotypical of all the users that Debian The Universal Operating
> System seeks to support.
I really don't see how 10 seconds or a minute more can hurt anyone. If
you reboot more often, then it's different. But boot time is minor
issue. On the other hands, we've already seen how companies are doing
it: first they are going to impress us with fast boot and then everyone
start using it, and then slowly they insert more and more crap into the
boot process, since not boot system is fast and it's no problem and
after a few years your system is again slow as before, unless you buy a
new machine. And BTW looks like Moore's low is not as before and computers
are becoming more expensive.
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