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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
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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 q.kontinuum on Wednesday October 08 2014, @04:14AM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Wednesday October 08 2014, @04:14AM (#103439) Journal

    and did you miss all the "won't somebody please think of the blind people" appeals he made

    No, but while the way he communicated was total shit, he made some relevant points there (e.g. why it might make sense to include all the accessibility stuff for login; I think Wolfgang showed later that this doesn't work still because of wrongly set privileges, but that does not invalidate the point.) This behaviour provides reasons not to want to work with him (which I probably won't anyway, and lets face it: Linus also provides a couple of reasons not to want to work with him), while the point he made at the end of the presentation provided reasons not to want to get tied up with his projects.

    Is there any credible free distribution without systemd left worth using? I currently use Fedora, and for most parts like it for providing up-to-date packages for most development tools etc. However, I have to concede the points Wolfgang Draxinger made, that the system gets more complicated to understand. There are more things you just have to magically know somehow instead of seeing it from debug output or in plain text config files. My impression is that systemd implements lots of great features, but it is either out of malice (gaining control) or out of time-constraints hacked together without clear interfaces and without separating the components.

     

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