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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 evilviper on Tuesday September 02 2014, @11:51AM

    by evilviper (1760) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @11:51AM (#88452) Homepage Journal

    and should be of no concern to you.

    It's very much a concern of mine. Every time something that affects functionality gets significant changes, I have to figure out EXACTLY how it works, and I certainly have to know the ins and outs between the major distros. I'm not just an end user with a couple Linux boxes.

    And as soon as it grows into enough of a problem to get noticeable, and worth the effort to really fix, a number of competing solutions will appear. As they always have.

    Your belief in the magical Linux/OSS fairy is misplaced. The world doesn't work that way. I know that from experience. You're welcome to sit back and let others work it out, but they've all decided to go with systemd.

    There have been several patchwork half-measure solutions before. systemd isn't the first, and it has had to compete with upstart and several others. It's just that every major distro out there decided systemd wins. Just because it has a few noisy detractors, doesn't mean there's something wrong with it.

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