[mdlug] Systemd Should Be A Fork -- Why Is It Not?

[A. Zimmer]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:43:24 -0400
Garry Stahl <tesral at wowway.com> wrote:

> 
> Not a programer, not a developer.  How it works?  It works well.  No 
> glitches, months of uptime. These are the things that matter to me. I'm 
> far more concerned about issues in Firefox.
> 

Please do educate yourself.

To most people, systemd is just a harmless service manager and init system.
Well, that may be what it is *now* but its goals are far more ambitious
and destructive.

Poettering, the lackey of RedHat, spells out the future in no uncertain
terms:

http://0pointer.de/public/gnomeasia2014.pdf

Note the agenda:

"The glue between applications and the kernel."

"Turning Linux from a bag of bits into a competitive General Purpose
Operating System."

"Unifying pointless differences between distributions."

"Building the Internet's Next Generation OS."


No.  Systemd intends to be more, much more, that just a service manager/init
system.

What means he by "pointless differences?"  Could this be the "old-school" idea
of freedom and choice?

Poettering and his cadre, on behalf of their master RedHat, desire to usurp
it all.

Enjoy it while you can.  It will not be around, as we have known it and
loved it, too much longer.