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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:01:42 -0700
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Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester
<Master_Fontaine_is_dishonest@Strand_in_London.Gov.UK> writes:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, MAGardner2010 wrote:
> "I'm pretty sure that the presence or absence of SystemD doesn't, [. . .]
> influence how compilers work."
>
> Hello,
>
> I agree.
>
> "[. . .] it shouldn't matter if one is programming on/for Debian,
> Devuan, Arch, Fedora, Red Hat, or possibly even one of the BSDs."
>
> GNU/Linux users debate about SystemD allegedly being buggy and
> insecure. Contributors to GNU/Linux distributions boast that such
> distributions do not use SystemD because of these reasons. A new
> GNU/Linux distribution was created specifically to avoid SystemD. I do
> not want to use (Ada-compiler) software on a buggy or insecure
> operating system. Do you?

All operating systems are buggy and insecure.  Some are less so than
others.  I have no particular opinion on whether systemd makes a system
more or less secure.  (The system I'm typing this on happens to use
systemd, a fact that I routinely ignore.)

If you prefer to avoid systemd, that's fine, but I don't see the
relevance to Ada.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
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