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.
Yeah, that's true. He sees features people want, and he builds them. For example, Debian distro builders were frustrated writing init scripts, so Poettering made something that filled the need of those distro builders [slashdot.org]. That's why it got adopted, because it contained features they wanted.
Frustrated writing init scripts? If they wanted to fix that, they could adopt something like BSD rc.d rather than cling to sysv.
This would move all the boring boiler plate into a central script that is then imported as needed.
Or they could adopt any number of Daemontools variants, or even help Gentoo maintain OpenRC.
Nah, their real problem was that they were insistent on having Gnome as the official desktop. This in turn allow RH/Fedora to dictate terms. And one of those terms is systemd, by way of Gnome's
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.
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That's a bit rude... I think Poettering's main motivation has been to simply modernize Linux.
Yeah, that's true. He sees features people want, and he builds them. For example, Debian distro builders were frustrated writing init scripts, so Poettering made something that filled the need of those distro builders [slashdot.org]. That's why it got adopted, because it contained features they wanted.
The problem of course is that he doesn't understand the Unix way [catb.org], especially when it comes to good interfaces between code [slashdot.org] (IMNSHO).
The people who like systemd tend to like the features.......the people who dislike it,
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Frustrated writing init scripts? If they wanted to fix that, they could adopt something like BSD rc.d rather than cling to sysv.
This would move all the boring boiler plate into a central script that is then imported as needed.
Or they could adopt any number of Daemontools variants, or even help Gentoo maintain OpenRC.
Nah, their real problem was that they were insistent on having Gnome as the official desktop. This in turn allow RH/Fedora to dictate terms. And one of those terms is systemd, by way of Gnome's
Re:BSD is looking better all the time (Score:5, Informative)
OpenRC++
openrc init scripts are fairly straight forward.
Coupled with gentoo's baselayout, and the config file layout is fairly normalized also.
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OpenRC++
openrc init scripts are fairly straight forward.
Coupled with gentoo's baselayout, and the config file layout is fairly normalized also.
Yep a system brought to you by the people who brought you:
#464385 +(4150)- [X] /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
[@insomnia] it only takes three commands to install Gentoo
[@insomnia] cfdisk
[@insomnia] that's the first one