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kindly shopkeeper

Now that this has 200 boosts i should confess that i havent used linux in two decades, i dont know what systemd is, and i dont understand any of these replies

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🍥SarahBurnout🍥

@hannah you're not missing anything really important...

Mausu

@hannah I've used it for 10 years and even I don't know what it is

Siph

@hannah if you want an explanation on the other side of things "système d" kinda means "diy mindset"

kindly shopkeeper

@Siph do you know if the linux thing an intentional pun on that because id so thats very clever

Siph

@hannah not to my knowledge unfortunately

Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)

@hannah @Siph I read in an article a while ago that systemd was an intentional pun on Système D. I think some of the devs were French, so it would be surprising if they weren't at least aware, it's such a commonly mentioned concept in France.

Siph

@uliwitness @hannah I didn't find any information to indicate that but if you can that'd be cool!

Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)

@Siph @hannah Wikipedia (en) mentions it and has a link to an archived article at Heise making the claim: web.archive.org/web/2012101417 that in turn links to this: web.archive.org/web/2013011403 which is the site of Lennart Poettering, apparently the original author of systemd.

tekhedd

@Siph @hannah OK wow so kind of the opposite of "systemd" then...

Bennett

@hannah many of them got a slight exhale of air out my nose, p good overall

t. Mr linux

Stiofán de Buitléir

@hannah

You know the #Christian #Reformation and the little disagreement about the role of the Pope?

Well, #systemd is a bit like that.

#linux

Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud

@hannah And here I was going to ask: which OS do you prefer, Emacs or systemd? Oh, well...

Phil Groce

@hannah It’s a monoid over the category of initialization processes

And if you thought the replies to this thread were inscrutable before….

Dr. Quadragon ❌

@hannah I don't believe you, miss.

Unless you're running your Mastodon server on FreeBSD or Haiku or whatever.

kindly shopkeeper

@drq I pay masto.host 9 bucks a month for them to do all the computer stuff for me

Dr. Quadragon ❌

@hannah Oh, okay, sure, apologies, best of luck then.

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