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Linux systemd Dev Says Open Source is 'SICK', Kernel Community 'Awful'

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday October 07 2014, @11:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the Mr-Popularity dept.

wirelessduck writes:

From El Reg:

Lennart Poettering, creator of the systemd system management software for Linux, says the open-source world is "quite a sick place to be in."

He also said the Linux development community is "awful" – and he pins the blame for that on Linux supremo Linus Torvalds.

"A fish rots from the head down," Poettering said in a post to his Google+ feed on Sunday.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday October 07 2014, @03:27PM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday October 07 2014, @03:27PM (#103088) Journal
    This is exactly what is being done already in sane systems e.g. slackware, gentoo, and the bsds. When a particular program that you really want to compile depends on systemd - if you investigate it's usually only a tiny subset of systemd they rely on, a dbus call for instance. So you just implement that particular call, sanely, and go on.

    Of course you have to weigh the effort to do that versus the usefulness of the program. GNOME is a deliberate bad actor and an enormous pain to sanitize but most programs that will require it will do so innocently, and require very little effort.
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