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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) by canopic jug on Tuesday September 02 2014, @12:01PM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 02 2014, @12:01PM (#88455) Journal

    That's giving him the benefit of the doubt, something that may not be appropriate given how much control systemd takes away from users and what a mess it and pulse audio are. Inflicting pre-alpha software onto production distros is another problem with systemd. But then about the lack of users' choice, maybe that is the goal. His post suggests to me that systemd might also be lining things up for rolling out DRM in such a way that users will not be in a position to avoid it. Systemd needs to be stopped now and if LP wants to continue with it, he should spin off his own distro and work with that until he has something safe and viable to show.

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