• GNU Shepherd 1.0

    From rbowman@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 13 22:14:30 2024
    https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/13/systemd_257_gnu_shepherd/

    After 21 years the Shepherd 1.0 init system is released! The GNU Project
    is one of the few things in the world that make George R.R Martin look
    like a prolific author.

    I used Scheme when working my way through the Wizard book, but have given
    Guile a wide berth. At least they finally found a use for it.

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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@21:1/5 to rbowman on Sat Dec 14 07:11:24 2024
    rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/13/systemd_257_gnu_shepherd/

    After 21 years the Shepherd 1.0 init system is released! The GNU Project
    is one of the few things in the world that make George R.R Martin look
    like a prolific author.

    Heh, he's got a ton o' books.

    In my trips to the local library, though, I see James Patterson's name in
    a number of different aisles, including the science fiction (!!) aisle.

    I used Scheme when working my way through the Wizard book, but have given Guile a wide berth. At least they finally found a use for it.

    --
    Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself,
    to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
    But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands
    shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit
    me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
    -- Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol"

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Chris Ahlstrom on Sat Dec 14 20:18:56 2024
    On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:11:24 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

    In my trips to the local library, though, I see James Patterson's name
    in a number of different aisles, including the science fiction (!!)
    aisle.

    He does get around. I read 'The Big Bad Wolf', one of the Cross series,
    this summer. It was okay. I was curious about him and I think that was the available title in the library's digital collection that I could download
    with the libby app.

    I think Faust was the king of pumping them out.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Brand

    Reportedly he hated westerns but they paid the rent.

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