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New Linux Vision That Involves btrfs

posted by LaminatorX on Monday September 01 2014, @09:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the puttering-about dept.

boteeka writes:

Phoronix has an article up about some interesting ideas of Lennart Poettering about what could be a possible future for Linux:

Lennart Poettering of systemd and PulseAudio fame has published a lengthy blog post that shares his vision for how he wishes to change how Linux software systems are put together to address a wide variety of issues. The Btrfs file-system and systemd play big roles with his new vision. Long story short, Lennart is trying to tackle how Linux distributions and software systems themselves are assembled to improve security, deal with the challenges of upstream software vendors integrating into many different distributions, and "the classic Linux distribution scheme is frequently not what end users want."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Lagg on Monday September 01 2014, @10:59PM

    by Lagg (105) on Monday September 01 2014, @10:59PM (#88236) Homepage Journal

    Yeah... Really starting to lose my enthusiasm. I can really only link to a post I already made (yay subscription-enabled infinite post history). It was looking so good too... http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=3454&cid=83030 [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DECbot on Tuesday September 02 2014, @01:59AM

    by DECbot (832) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @01:59AM (#88321) Journal
    I also have a previous post [soylentnews.org] that more or less predicted Poettering's project creep. Even being the kernel maintainer and Linux creator, I don't see Linus's decisions affecting the distributions as much or with the same outrage as what LP does.

    In my previous post, I was off attributing this to systemd, but I think I nailed that everything short of your wallpaper is in Poettering's project scope. Up next, Pottering will solve the Linux graphics stack, from drivers to windows managers and beyond. I'll call it GNOME4 or how I forgot my worries and learned to abandon the Unix philosophy.

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    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Jesus_666 on Tuesday September 02 2014, @02:21PM

      by Jesus_666 (3044) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @02:21PM (#88501)
      You need to understand that the one concern any user has, above silly things like versatility, fitness for a given purpose and usability, is boot time. The only measure that counts is how long your system takes to go from power on to showing you the GNOME desktop (which is also why Windows and OS X will fail; they don't boot into GNOME).

      That's why Lennart will soon present Lennix version 1.0, a single program that contains everything from the kernel to the init system to the shell to GNOME. This will give you unprecedented boot-to-GNOME performance and thus improve your productivity by orders of magnitude. It will also obviate package management because software packages are only required if your system can run more than one binary, which is completely unneccessary in Lennix.

      Future versions of Lennix will also contain all data Lennart thinks you will ever need, thus removing the need to lug around a clunky file system.

      • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 02 2014, @03:07PM

        by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @03:07PM (#88526)

        Maybe he could implement in mandatory Australis in addition to GNOME so I can ignore all the things I hate in one place.

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      • (Score: 2) by etherscythe on Thursday September 04 2014, @04:39PM

        by etherscythe (937) on Thursday September 04 2014, @04:39PM (#89400) Journal

        ...followed by the HURD in a finalized distro called Stallix, paving the new commu^H^Hputing revolution towards prosperity for all Truly Free Software. Hail, user-comrades!

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