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[Ed's Comment: Not wishing to ignite yet another flame war regarding the adoption of systemd, I hesitated before publishing this story. However, although it is not an formal survey, it might still reflect the views of the greater linux user community rather than those who frequent this particular site. There is no need to restate the arguments seen over the last few weeks - they are well known and understood - but the survey might have a point.]
http://q5sys.sh has recenlty conducted a survey finding many Linux users may be in favour of systemd:
First off lets keep one thing in mind, this was not a professional survey. As such the results need to be taken as nothing more than the opinions of the 4755 individuals who responded. While the survey responses show that 47% of the respondents are in favor of systemd, that does not mean that 47% of the overall linux community is in favor of systemd. The actual value may be higher or lower. This is simply a small capture of our overall community.
Although the author questions the results could this be an indication that we're really seeing a vocal minority who don't want systemd while the silent majority either do or simply don't care? Poll results and the original blog post.
(Score: 2) by meisterister on Friday November 21 2014, @12:19AM
I have only 2 itty bitty minor problems with FreeBSD, only one of which will affect my adoption:
1. There's no updated version of Java. I actually quite like Java. To me it's how others view Python: in Java it's easy to bang out an algorithm and get things rolling. The only problem is that I also really like Eclipse and Netbeans (and I kinda have to have Java for work). Also, before someone chimes in with "you can compile it". No I can't, which leads me into #2.
2. It defaults to llvm as the C compiler. On my CPUs (all of which are AMD), GCC can curb-stomp llvm and then have a little bit of energy left to do 20,000 jumping jacks while llvm is still figuring out what's going on. Needless to say, I like GCC. I'm used to it, and it does everything I want it to. It's a shame that the version of GCC that can be installed on FreeBSD is from sometime in the last geological age.
Aside from this, FreeBSD has been awesome. I'm going to try out PC-BSD soon because it looks like the the BSD Ubuntu, but better (or at least, how Ubuntu used to be).
(May or may not have been) Posted from my K6-2, Athlon XP, or Pentium I/II/III.
(Score: 2) by fnj on Friday November 21 2014, @12:39AM
openjdk-7.71.14,1 not "updated" enough for you? How about openjdk8-8.25.17_1? Either one is only a "pkg install" away.
Really? We're talking about gcc-4.8.3_2 here. There's also gcc49-4.9.3.s20141105. Again, either one, and quite a few others, are a "pkg install" away. And they can coexist with clang and with each other.
(Score: 2) by meisterister on Friday November 21 2014, @01:01AM
I just flipping tried this a month ago! It was probably a config problem on my part, I'll try again soon.
(May or may not have been) Posted from my K6-2, Athlon XP, or Pentium I/II/III.