On Wed, October 8, 2014 13:36, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Robert Arkiletian robark@gmail.com wrote:
Just a heads up to those who haven't seen this yet. The main author of systemd publicly wrote about being basically persecuted.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/J2TZrTvu7v...
But oddly, he didn't even mention that there would be a real simple solution - just add backwards-compatible improvements instead of actively wrecking the interfaces everyone else had depended on for decades.
And see this:
http://www.zdnet.com/lennart-poetterings-linus-torvalds-rant-7000034384/
On Thu, October 9, 2014 11:12 am, James B. Byrne wrote:
On Wed, October 8, 2014 13:36, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Robert Arkiletian robark@gmail.com wrote:
Just a heads up to those who haven't seen this yet. The main author of systemd publicly wrote about being basically persecuted.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/J2TZrTvu7v...
But oddly, he didn't even mention that there would be a real simple solution - just add backwards-compatible improvements instead of actively wrecking the interfaces everyone else had depended on for decades.
And see this:
http://www.zdnet.com/lennart-poetterings-linus-torvalds-rant-7000034384/
I'd rather have people look at this:
http://www.zdnet.com/linus-torvalds-and-others-on-linuxs-systemd-7000033847/
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
I'd rather have people look at this:
http://www.zdnet.com/linus-torvalds-and-others-on-linuxs-systemd-7000033847/
Yes, "much too cavalier about bugs and compatibility" is exactly right. Never mind the fact that you break everything you existing users have done, you might attract some people who like windows and don't understand that it took decades of patches and reboots every Tuesday to reach any kind of stability with its monolithic approach.
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