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by e7620 12y ago
Look how many platforms X supports, how many paradigm shifts has survived. systemd already has a less flexible architecture by design that an ancient system, so in the future it'll be difficult to untangle.
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by e7620 12y ago
You should educate yourself about FUD, I recommend the Halloween documents, where they explain the unfeasibility of FUD tactics against an open source project, e.g. if someone tries to do it they won't get anywhere.
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by e7620 12y ago
But the patches that didn't fit the roadmap dictated by RedHat have been rejected.
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by e7620 12y ago
Facebook also uses PHP, the most reviled language around here. Google has a developer team to rewrite components and adapt the Linux kernel, consider that.
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by e7620 12y ago
This is a well thought out and complete response, it's just unfortunate that an image illustrating an overcomplicated system to solve a simple problem has elicited this censure; instead of the comment, in response to another user throw
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by e7620 12y ago
> combined with the scabrous smack. The word 'scabrous' means "dealing with salacious or indecent material". Feel free to inspect the image, I guarantee it's safe for work.
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by e7620 12y ago
> "being or not a corporation" makes a huge difference Take a look at Mozilla, they implemented DRM, otherwise they could have lost relevance, they explained. Now Debian must commit resources just making everything work with ev
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by e7620 12y ago
What he says is that they used the literal name in symlinks, not a derivative term.
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by e7620 12y ago
That's precisely the point, it's part of the quote, the more Debian standardizes on the upcoming systemd distro, it'll get erased by RedHat real fast, who offers a differentiating advantage. How do you differentiate your
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by e7620 12y ago
No shit, I don't distribute the GNU/Linux software either, too big and inconvenient (GB) compared to a patch (bytes). >> GPL or any other OSS license grants you the the permission The sysvinit alternatives that I know and us
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by e7620 12y ago
> Only the ones small enough that they don't worry about getting sued You got it backwards. Precisely only the big commercial distros with mighty legal teams (Debian, RedHat, Fedora) could afford to get away with violating the GPL,
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by e7620 12y ago
I've been hearing this for decades: If Linux and *BSD are better than Windows, how come exactly zero people have made the switch? Except they've been adopted, systemd has been mandatory only in some bigger more commercial distros.
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by e7620 12y ago
I'll tell you one thing, I know nothing about you, but this person is considered by many the best programmer in the world, one thing is certain, compared to the good done to the world, he's various levels above you and me, he&#x27
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by e7620 12y ago
Your analogies are great, transmiting a clear picture of systemd, like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Professor...
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by e7620 12y ago
Well, if Microsoft could, and did, port IE and Office to UNIX, why would the free and open software people have a problem in allowing more user choice? Why would they need to hard depend on software designed to be non-replaceable? With mo
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by e7620 12y ago
Not if Linus decided that, if the Linux Foundation decided that they wanted to switch the license to proprietary. See the mailing list message of Linus against deep integration between the kernel and systemd! > The beauty of OSS is that
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by e7620 12y ago
Don't quote me on this, but I recall reading from official channels that the last Debian version without mandatory systemd is going to see its support period indefinitely extended for a long time. Good luck! :)
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by e7620 12y ago
Who are this developers you keep talking about? When Microsoft bundled IE, WMP with Windows, we said, OK, developers decided that the benefit is worth the dependency, they'll do it, but we didn't like that, I'm not talking
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by e7620 12y ago
Not only udev, they roadmap is to pack the whole system so as to remove any difference between linux installs, their words, not mine. Currently, we can fork udev, but in the future, are you telling my to fork the whole operating system? And
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by e7620 12y ago
Ok, I agree with you entirely, just a quick response because I was quoting and so have the responsibility to avoid distorting other people's words. This didn't happen 7-10 years ago, that's when it started, but this continue
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by e7620 12y ago
I happen to like modern daemontools-like init systems a lot, (runit, s6) but I use various init systems depending on what I want, and that's great IMO. The problem is that systemd is that is being forcefully pushed to all distros. For
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by e7620 12y ago
In May 2004, a Debian packet maintainer (Eduard Bloch) started to send repeated personal insults to Jörg Schilling after one of Bloch's patch requests against mkisofs was rejected because it was full of bugs. In March 2006, a group of
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by e7620 12y ago
cough FFmpeg cough
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by e7620 12y ago
Your response only makes sense if your alternatives are: (1) systemd, (2) sysvinit and (3) a horrible death. I know dozens of init systems that do much more, markedly better than systemd, and are modular so you can easily replace them when
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by e7620 12y ago
systemd is not an init system, that's how it started, but they state they want to comprise a whole OS. Debian may seem too big to die, but they are slowly being commoditized away, because RedHat is known to offer better sales force, be
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by e7620 12y ago
>> that is simply FUD You should educate yourself about FUD, I recommend the Halloween documents, where they explain the unfeasibility of FUD tactics against an open source project, and that if someone tries to do it they won't g
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by e7620 12y ago
I followed a link to webarchive and, coincidentally, ended up on the slashdot homepage from about 2000 I think, RedHat was becoming a threat to Linux, just like Microsoft, and it's interesting to me how well they predicted the future,
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by e7620 12y ago
Are you serious? sysvinit's modular architecture allows an easy substitution with other alternatives, that's why you can replace it with say systemd and have a working system.
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by e7620 12y ago
This is not true, unless you happen to have too many dollars to spare. Also, Windows can also be forked, by distributing patches instead of binaries.
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by e7620 12y ago
If you need to advance exactly 50 pages, the worst thing there is from a usability perspective is to press PageDown 50 times, instead of clicking 5 times with progressive pagination or inputing the number in other traditional designs. pinte

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