resolv.conf questions

[Mike Marchywka]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 12:45:03PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Fri, 9 Aug 2019 14:07:43 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I could go on.
> > 
> > Unix is a late-1960s OS designed for late-1960s minicomputers:
> > * big standalone non-networkerd servers with lots of small disks,
> > shared by multiple interactive users on dumb text terminals
> > * users built their own software from source
> > * everything is a text file. Editors and piping are key tools.
> > 
...
> > 
> > Gosh. That turned into quite a rant.

You see this a lot about how a text oriented whatever is old fashioned
but that is still the best way to convey tractable information in most
cases. You want everything to be emoticons and music? 
I thought this news item below was worth noting, as computers and FEM etc were going
to eliminate the need for analytical solutions to anything, and
there is always Mathematica, this comes up,

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marchywka_a-mexican-physicist-solved-a-2000-year-old-activity-6565217614577090560-ubOu

( this is a bt of a tangent but given how widespread the belief is
in computer numerical methods I thought it was worth a mention ) 

There are people who want to do things with computers other than just make 
pictures or music. AFAICT there is no simple way to explain a chain of menu
selections that has any lifetime to it compared to a script. You may
want to add features, but regardless of pushing the envelope or
trying to get by with a bottleneck it helps if the OS is non-bloated.


> > 
> > Anyway. The Linux desktop is going to continue to move away from
> > familiar *nix ways because they are historical now. Because the Linux
> > desktop is only a tiny parasite on the flank of the _vast_ Linux
> > server market, it gets tooling designed for that.
> > 
> > If you want a more traditional Unix experience, try FreeBSD. It's
> > thriving off the move to systemd and so on.

Generally I thought 'Beaver made some improvements over my old Debian
on an old emachines and probably if I tweaked the new params it
may have been overall a worthwhile change. There is a lot of fairly
modern numerical code written in Fortran and users probably
don't want to waste resources on other stuff. It is not a question
of tradition as much as what other stuff exists and various tradeoffs
in configuring a system.   


> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933
> Deepwoods Software        -- Custom Software Services
> http://www.deepsoft.com/  -- Linux Administration Services
> heller at deepsoft.com       -- Webhosting Services
>                                                                                              
> 

> -- 
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users


-- 

mike marchywka
306 charles cox
canton GA 30115
USA, Earth 
marchywka at hotmail.com
404-788-1216
ORCID: 0000-0001-9237-455X