QNX 6 had a public beta some years ago. It breathed new life on a very old 486 I had laying around.

QNX 4 was also used on some fancy life signs monitors and other safety / mission critical equipment.

Why?

BTW, do you know why are there so many forks of Greasemonkey? What happened to the parent project?

They lure you in with their neat thematic icons and ordered structure, but they’re all MANIACS there! Every last one of them!

Well done! Protip: You can use double new lines to format paragraphs. And full-stops.

Happens.

I’m afraid you answered the wrong comment.

At the workplace?

Great talk indeed. And I will quickly acknowledge that something had to be done, and that systemd had the courage to innovate and address the issues. I just wish it did so in a more transparent way to the end user.

For instance: there’s a whole established system of dealing with logs in place. Why build a separate one just for your init system? Why binary? Why even integrate it with your init? I’m not saying storing everything on /var/log and using logrotate is ideal or even covers all use cases. But a log management system is its own thing.

That’s just an example of how systemd didn’t jive with every other subsystem in a Unix like OS. It could have been done in a Unix way - small cohesive tools that are good at one job and can be combined to do more together.

That’s where I think he missed the mark when dismissing the monolithic criticism by saying “it’s not a single binary so it’s not monolithic”. Its philosophy is monolithic.

That said, I use systemd on my machines because that’s what my do uses and I don’t think it’s a reason to swap distros. For the same reason I use Linux and not a micro kernel. I.e. philosophy is important, but implementation is importanter.

So that’s the story. SystemD feels very Microsofty, though. A big, opinionated, monolith.

Wasn’t the systemd dude a Microsoft employee or something?

Epic?

I started with floppies too, when I bought my copy of Conectiva Linux 3.0. It came with a hefty manual that was instrumental for a newbie like me.

How? Why? I can’t even

I don’t want to search this… Wth is it?

Your brains and mine work very very differently. Kudos to diversity.

Oops, you’re right. I got confused with the three open source drivers available. Nvidia’s driver doesn’t have a good name. The point stands though.

And now* nvidia launched Nova, instead of contributing to Nuveau for some reason. It’s like they want to take wind out of Nouveau.

I don’t agree with the full stop. Eliminating nuance is rarely good. Most tasks an IT professional will execute will be done several times a month, so memorizing the tar command options might be useful if that’s something they do all the time. But demanding that a person is proficient with the CLI as a way to prove familiarity with how things work under the hood is just fallacious.

I coded in vim and we built our own makefiles to deploy our code into our proprietary microcontroller. We also used JTAG to connect gdb with the microcontroller, and not even the guy that coded the JTAG interface would be able to write JTAG commands by hand.

They’re basically describing a good GUI.