Just read the papers ... and the rebuttals. Binary seems utterly easy -- it is NOT as soon as multiprocessing comes to the table.
Indeed no one is saying that Ken and Dennis didn't have admin knowledge.
What we are pointing out is that admin skills are the minimal part of the process to build an OS.
To make an analogy to the "you need administrators" point - imagine a F1 race car designed and build by the drivers. And only the drivers. Yes, you need to know how to drive the thing if you design it, but you do not need to be a total expert at it. You need to know how that thing works when you are an expert driver, but you do not need to be an expert mechanic or engineer. So in designing an operating system, I would take administrators into the team, as well as hardware engineers and architects. But I would also make sure that none of them would have the last say in any matters.Yup, it would be like building a car without controls.However, controls are the final part. You need engineers to make the engine first.
Not really. What's almost completely missing is monitoring of the processes. BSD init offers /etc/ttys (the name already suggest it's intended just for tty-controlling processes), SYSV init offers /etc/inittab. Both are useless for anything a bit more complex, so most of the process launching is done from scripts. This offers all the flexibility you need, but monitoring gets out of scope. systemd tries to solve this shortcoming, which would be nice, but ... it tries to solve tons of utterly unrelated (or even non-existent) problems as well, tightly integrated, and, as if this wasn't bad enough already, it does it in a "linux-only way". That's what I meant when I said it was the wrong answer to the right question.
There are people still claiming this isn't Linux' goal, either, and IMHO they are right, but we will see if they somehow manage to be heard again ....
For me, a fat big crate, peacefully humming away in the evening, doing the computing, archiving and processing I do not trust the klaut* with. Privacy has a value, and thus a price has to be payed. Sadly it is payed to keep it, not when you get deprived of it. And anyway, it is payed in the wrong direction.
I heard about another linux distribution without systemd, void linux. Did not test it myself... yet.
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/dnsblock server -v 2>&1[Unit]
Description=dnsblock
Wants=local-fs.target network.target
After=local-fs.target network.target
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
Group=root
ExecStart=dnsblock
KillMode=process
Restart=on-success
PrivateTmp=true
StandardOutput=syslog
At a first look such sentences are agreeable when reading.