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Re: [LUG] New distro - and logging off

 

For my desktops, I've been taking a different view.

Use a fast SSD as the OS drive, and assign powerbutton to "sleep".
Instant on or off and my session still in the same state as I left it,
at the cost of a very small amount of power.

On 17 November 2012 21:52, Egon Spengler <migel_wimtore@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:14:34 +0000
> bad apple <ifindthatinteresting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 17/11/12 19:49, Migel Wimtore wrote:
>> > Sorry, systemd, not systemd d.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Either way, it's that idiot Poettering again... I really wish he'd f*ck
>> off and stop wrecking other distros by dragging them into his messes.
>> Although I have to support a lot of RedHat flavour boxes, it wouldn't be
>> so bad if his idiocy only infected RedHat/Fedora but sadly it
>> cross-infects everyone eventually.
>>
>> Just have a look at the state of affairs on this thread:
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg00328.html
>>
>> They're talking more about the Gentoo guys wisely deciding to fork udev
>> away from the broken crap coming out of RedHat but they also talk a lot
>> about pulseaudio, systemd, avahi and other "brilliant" stuff that retard
>> has foisted on to us. Linus himself was spitting blood about them not so
>> long back... He's (Poettering) very clever and clearly a talented
>> programmer, but jesus, he just won't stop doing stupid, stupid things.
>>
>> Regards
>
>
> --
>
> I will say for systemd that startup and shutdown are lighting fast!
> And service management is pretty sensibly implemented with systemctl. Though i 
> still miss the rc.d commands, they actually seem a little arcane to me now. For 
> example, "sudo /etc/rc.d/hdapsd start" is sensible, you simply point to it and 
> start it, but, with systemd there is a layer of abstraction in the way you refer 
> to services, and other things. Which you may or may not like. You don't call 
> things by describing there location. For example, it is "sudo systemctl start 
> hdapsd". The sysstemd method arguably makes things simpler by taking away the need 
> to remember the path. However, at the same time, the rc commands are also useful 
> /because/ they are more descriptive.
>
> Also, in defence of Pulse. Though it doesn't yet play with jack audio as well as 
> ALSA, it is getting there, and it actually has some really neat features. Being 
> able to boost the heck out of laptop speakers, on the fly, is really useful. Tying 
> to watch quieter things, like lectures, on laptops with bad speakers can often be 
> fairly challenging. And, being able to adjust the output volume for each 
> application individually, is pretty great too. All from the Pulse Audio control 
> GUI thingy, pavucontrol. I use Pulse on my general laptop these days, happily. 
> Still using ALSA on my audio one (an old banger) for use with MIDI and JACK.
>
> Just saying.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Mike.
>
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