Systemd Ditches GNU C Library for Their Own
In his typical fashion of replacing perfectly working software with
useless broken-by-design crap, our dearest Lennart has decided that
the time has come for systemd to gain an email program. He determined
that the GNU libc was insufficient for the task of a dbus-enabled cpu
hogging email client, leading to the new systemd libc: "
Technically, this move makes perfectly sense, too. We are sick
of supporting unstable glibc APIs and ABIs, and we believe that we
greatly benefit from the fact that we now finally have everything the
OS userspace consists of in one single repository. Of course, this new
libc is not available to Ubuntu and other Linux distributions that
have not yet adopted systemd. However, after deliberately choosing a
home-grown display server (Wayland) over the generally accepted one
(Mir) we decided creating an incompatible libc would be the best
approach to create a strong platform following a strict release
cadence."
On the bright side "We also renamed the API call creat() to create()..."
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