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

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 11:34 -0400, A. Zimmer wrote:
> Please do educate yourself.

I am a LPI certified systems administrator with 20+ years of
experience.  I ran LINUX before version 1.0.

> 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."

You view these as disastrous goals?

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

I think he means the absurdity that LINUX distributions cannot even
commonly choose were to put [or hide] various configuration files,
domain sockets, etc...

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

Yes, LINUX today is a very different operating system than 0.99a1
kernel I ran on my 80386SX16.  I suspect, and hope, that will continue
to be true.

I do worry a great deal about the future of technology 'choice'.  But
my concerns are more about "the cloud" and what it means for any non
-hosted solutions; and what they will advocate in the name of
"Security".  We do face some seemingly hegemonic powers with no
interest in 'choice' - but none of those are the kernel developers.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA