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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 frojack on Friday October 10 2014, @03:50AM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday October 10 2014, @03:50AM (#104309) Journal

    The point I was trying to make, and with which I accidentally stepped on your bee's nest, was that nobody running linux wants just a shell account any more.

    Hence, they will all want SOME FORM of desktop environment, or graphical environment. Which means that when ALL the graphical environment projects adopt systemd, those distros like slackware who want to avoid it will have to custom build of even the simplest graphical environment, backing out all the systemd hooks for sysVinit, or what ever.

    But, I, still wondering, in a discussion of systemd, how did I get sandbagged with a windows rant?

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday October 10 2014, @03:22PM

    by VLM (445) on Friday October 10 2014, @03:22PM (#104502)

    "how did I get sandbagged with a windows rant"

    Because this mythical "they" that everyone has an opinion on but no data actually want a program launcher, not an "environment"

    Trying to hyper-tightly couple everything together is a losing system design strategy. Your USB shoudn't have anything to do with your IRC client.