That's what Poettering has been doing his whole life, getting into good open source projects, squatting and then shitting all over them. The infection, stink and filth then linger for decades. He's a cancer on open source.
That's a bit rude... I think Poettering's main motivation has been to simply modernize Linux.
I can see that as being one of his goals but if you want to improve Linux why a new init system plus? I did not hear any system admins asking for this.
He would be considered a saint if he would do something useful like fix the desktop environments so the "Year of the Linux Desktop" finally gets here.
No need to fix the DEs, what is needed is for MS and Intel to get curbstomped by market regulators so that they stop cockblocking the availability of Linux on brick and mortar store shelves.
I did. All the system admins who were being forced off of VMS, MVS, Solaris, AIX... towards Linux that wanted complex process management wanted this. The system admins who had to work with large numbers of VMs in complex environments (i.e. admin of public, private and especially hybrid clouds) wanted this. The group of adminis who didn't want this were mainly the admins who run individual boxes running on bare metal which perform a limited number of tas
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the
expense of it.
-- Josh Billings
BSD is looking better all the time (Score:0)
LOL still fighting to his day with Pulse Audio on XFCE on Fedora 22.
Jeez has it come down to me having to write a functional volume/mixer applet for myself?
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That's what Poettering has been doing his whole life, getting into good open source projects, squatting and then shitting all over them. The infection, stink and filth then linger for decades. He's a cancer on open source.
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That's a bit rude... I think Poettering's main motivation has been to simply modernize Linux.
That he uses giant bloated abstraction layers to do it, is a bit questionable of course. :)
Linux already runs slower than Windows because of this overengineered junkpile.
Re:BSD is looking better all the time (Score:2)
That's a bit rude... I think Poettering's main motivation has been to simply modernize Linux.
I can see that as being one of his goals but if you want to improve Linux why a new init system plus? I did not hear any system admins asking for this.
He would be considered a saint if he would do something useful like fix the desktop environments so the "Year of the Linux Desktop" finally gets here.
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No need to fix the DEs, what is needed is for MS and Intel to get curbstomped by market regulators so that they stop cockblocking the availability of Linux on brick and mortar store shelves.
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I did. All the system admins who were being forced off of VMS, MVS, Solaris, AIX... towards Linux that wanted complex process management wanted this. The system admins who had to work with large numbers of VMs in complex environments (i.e. admin of public, private and especially hybrid clouds) wanted this. The group of adminis who didn't want this were mainly the admins who run individual boxes running on bare metal which perform a limited number of tas