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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: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 02 2014, @02:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 02 2014, @02:20AM (#88331)

    will not work over the long term: see MULTICS

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by LukeSkywalker on Tuesday September 02 2014, @05:37AM

    by LukeSkywalker (1190) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @05:37AM (#88378)

    True, and that is why Unix was created in the first place.

    Brian Kernighan described Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie's "Unix" project as "...one of whatever Multics in many of..."

    • (Score: 2) by evilviper on Tuesday September 02 2014, @09:38AM

      by evilviper (1760) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @09:38AM (#88429) Homepage Journal

      You really screwed-up the joke...

      it had a joke name, Unix, coined by Brian Kernighan, that was a reference to Multics. ("One of whatever Multics was many of" or "Multics without balls.")

      --
      Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 02 2014, @05:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 02 2014, @05:39AM (#88379)

    the life Well, maybe you can say that the timespan 1967-2000 i(33 years) s not to be considered long-term, but it is surely longer that the timespan os MacOS, any Windows release. Surely, Linux is taking longer (given that Multics development ended 1987 (only 20 years), but now that it is being scaled for a large set of use-cases it is starting to suffer riots.

    well, maybe Red Hat PRs will prefer to call it a munity.