On Wed, October 8, 2014 12:36 pm, Digimer wrote: > On 08/10/14 01:35 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> On Wed, October 8, 2014 12:22 pm, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:08 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>> >>>> Jonathan Billings wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 11:04:11AM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: >>>>>> Anybody see this article on /. >>>>> >>>>> I'd avoid slashdot entirely and read the phoronix article: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwNzQ >>>>> >>>>> Also, note that this is in the experimental release and most likely >>>>> won't be EL7's systemd any time soon. >>>> >>>> And the point of it is? >>>> >>>> Can someone just send the team that's working systemd on a nice >>>> vacation, >>>> say, maybe northern Iraq/Syria, the land of ISIS? >>>> >>> >>> 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/J2TZrTvu7vd >> >> OK, I for one am boycotting his creature, to the extent I can, the way I >> can: I move my servers away from Linux (to FreeBSD, if someone >> interested). None of my server will run on the box that has systemd. >> Workstations stay Linux... >> >> Valeri > > That is fair and fully your choice. > > Wishing the man harm though, as some have done, is entirely irrational. > When someone is saying "they are looking into hiring hitman for me" I'm not only questioning sanity of "them" (and we know many examples when majority is nasty), but also sanity of person who claims that. I do have (my humble, yet awfully strong) opinion about mental abilities of authors of systemd. And I personally will not wish anybody of them harm (even though their systemd did a lot of harm to Linux), I just find better system for what I do... Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++