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GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor (gnu.org.ua)
garciasn 12 minutes ago [-]
Almost 20 years ago now I worked for a company that sat a group of about 25 of us down to talk about their latest survey named...CRMPIES.

Everyone looked at me like I was insane as I sat there chuckling. Thank you for bringing back that unfortunate memory.

tete 1 hours ago [-]
Everyone needs to have made a web framework. Everyone needs to have made a programming language. Everyone needs to have made a supervisor. Everyone has to have made a container manager. Everyone needs to have made a text editor.
binaryturtle 48 minutes ago [-]
Absolutely. I recently wrote my first compiler to get it off the bucket list… brainf*ck compiler/interpreter #100010134 or such? :-) Well… it was a fun half hour.
54 minutes ago [-]
Alifatisk 10 minutes ago [-]
Are the collection of components run in some kind of namespace? Say I run a Pies for Gitlab (which in itself had lots of components), and I run a Pies for Frpd, do they share the same space or are they isolated from each other? Am I maybe overthinking this? Perhaps its just a program manager.
arjie 34 minutes ago [-]
One release every 4 years. So this is like monit or systemd-supervisord and so on, a process manager. I have to say the thing I most enjoy about it is the fact that it's got the classic GNU trend of "here's an obviously pronounceable spelling; let's say it a different way".
stackghost 29 minutes ago [-]
The only thing missing is a recursive acronym e.g. Pies: Pies Is Experimental Software or something equally cringe like Hurd
stevekemp 18 minutes ago [-]
Pies is eshewing systemd?
calvinmorrison 20 minutes ago [-]
how about "Active Development" without any progress in 3 decades
written-beyond 55 minutes ago [-]
Is this the gnu version of systemd?

edit: I know it's not a monolith like systemd but service/unit files are a core component of systemd

eliaspro 34 minutes ago [-]
systemd is not a monolith.

It's a collection of losely coupled components and services of which basically every single one can be disabled or replaced by another implementation.

stackghost 27 minutes ago [-]
It's a collection of tightly-coupled components that are functionally a monolith because large distros tend to rely on the various components rather than allowing modularity.
bladeee 53 minutes ago [-]
GNU Shepherd
throw_a_grenade 47 minutes ago [-]
"Pies" means "dog" in Polish an Ukrainian (пес).
fangorn 39 minutes ago [-]
So, "Gnu is Not Unix, Dawg"?
otterley 39 minutes ago [-]
Is that pronounced “peace” or “piss”?
throw_a_grenade 36 minutes ago [-]
More like pi+[y]es, but single syllable and no y.

EDIT: Here are three audio files to hear: https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/pies#pies_(j%C4%99zyk_polski)

otterley 33 minutes ago [-]
When do you use that vs собака (sobaka)?
throw_a_grenade 22 minutes ago [-]
I don't, I'm Polish. Can't say for sure for Ukrainians, don't know Ukrainian that well, but my reading of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B... and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%81#Ukrainian suggests that пес must be male, but собака is either male or female. I might be wrong.
relaxing 33 minutes ago [-]
> pronounced "p-yes"

Absolutely not.

Apologies to the Slavs, but there’s already a utility pronounced like that.

evilmonkey19 39 minutes ago [-]
Pies it means "foot" in spanish
otterley 38 minutes ago [-]
Plural - “feet”
baq 36 minutes ago [-]
'a dog' in polish
asa400 30 minutes ago [-]
If you have to explain the pronunciation of the name of your tool in the first sentence, you've already lost.
myth2018 2 minutes ago [-]
[delayed]
zekrioca 30 minutes ago [-]
No.
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