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

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 02 2014, @01:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 02 2014, @01:15AM (#88306)

    It's going to be a disaster for the Linux community, regardless of what happens.

    If there's no opposition, we'll see the widespread use of systemd by the major distros, and the obvious technical problems that will introduce (due to systemd being idiotic in so many fundamental ways).

    If there is some opposition, we'll still see some systemd-based distros in the wild. This will cause significant fragmentation of the Linux community, and it will cause headaches for anyone who has to maintain or support these installations going forward.

    If there is total opposition, we'll still have to deal with the installations put in place before the opposition was total, wasting valuable time and effort.

    The Linux community will lose in the long run, regardless of what happens with systemd.

    I think that the systemd threat is serious enough that it could significantly reduce the viability of Linux for all sorts of users. It has been very divisive so far, and created a huge amount of strife and discontent within the Linux community. There is social and technological fragmentation going on at this very moment thanks to systemd, and this will bring significant harm. Lots of time and effort will be wasted thanks to the schism that systemd has caused.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday September 03 2014, @12:06AM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday September 03 2014, @12:06AM (#88704)

    >and the obvious technical problems that will introduce (due to systemd being idiotic in so many fundamental ways).

    Please elaborate.

    >It has been very divisive so far, and created a huge amount of strife and discontent within the Linux community. There is social and technological fragmentation going on at this very moment thanks to systemd, and this will bring significant harm.

    All I've seen is a bunch of low foreheads who think they can change the Linux distros with dreams and talk. Most distros are moving ahead with systemd despite the objections. The people who actually make decisions seem to like it, it's only a bunch of naysayers on online forums who are bitching about it. These naysayers don't actually run any distros themselves. The real proof will be when most distros are running systemd (which seems inevitable with both Red Hat and Debian adopting it, and most distros being derived from these two), if users abandon them en masse, or if the continue using them just like they did with PulseAudio.