On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 4:13 AM, Nicholas Geovanis
> Like numerous linux users I have sometimes lamented coming to terms with
> systemd. My belief is that it's a well-written collection of software which
> is somewhat over-engineered. It fills a need, sure, though I've managed to
> live and work without it for a long time (been using linux since 1994). And
> who am I to question Torvalds and Co. on the subject of its suitability for
> linux and the data center?
Have Linus and Lennart come to a meeting of minds or something?
Yes, they conspired to invade my personal space with systemd ;-)
But as I wrote, the 80000-kilo gorilla named Amazon Web Services may
make that a non-issue for the future. It's looking "cloud"-ier every day.
(12 billion $ in 2016. Dwell on that number for a while.....)
And Poettering worked on pulseaudio so maybe someday I can learn to forgive :-)