Israel G. Lugo wrote:
On 10/23/2014 12:05 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
systemd is a tool designed to get the system to a state where "real
work" can be done. NTP servers, DHCP clients, consoles, aren't the
real work of a system, or at least I hope not, because that would be
boring to me.
Depends on the system.
Legitimate question, not trying to be sarcastic: would you concede that
the amount to which something is a "detail" may vary significantly per
the use case, and requirements? On my desktop I might not care about
whatever the DHCP client is doing, or the NTP server, but on a server
that may very well be a different story.
Re. NTP: Timekeeping is rather essential in lots of applications - like,
for example, transit operations, where I currently spend my work life.
An accurate, accessible central clock tends to be a rather important
system component. And we're talking concerns in the range of seconds.
When you start getting into serious real-time systems (laboratory
instrumentation, utility operations, warfighting, ....) - yeah, NTP
servers start getting really interesting, to a lot of people.
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
