[mdlug] Big brother gives M$ a 10 out of 10

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Thu May 23 16:43:57 EDT 2024



> On May 23, 2024, at 12:25, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 
> LAP said on Wed, 22 May 2024 13:21:55 -0400
> 
>> An OS exists for one purpose only: to provide an interface for
>> software to operate on hardware.  That is all.
>> 
>> Microsoft has always vastly exceeded this bound by providing its own
>> utilities that are tightly fused to the OS.
>> 
>> Fortunately, GNU/Linux remains a true OS.  It provides nothing
>> more than an API for independent software to exploit.
> 
> Except systemd.
> 
>> 
>> However, the encroachment of systemd is beginning to threaten
>> this OS model.
> 
> Oh, look at that, you had the same thought 

I’m curious, how does systemd threaten that OS model?

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Jonathan Billings



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