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You Got Your Windows In My Linux
snydeq writes: Ultimately, the schism over systemd could lead to a separation of desktop and server distros, or Linux server admins moving to FreeBSD, writes Deep End's Paul Venezia. "Although there are those who think the systemd debate has been decided in favor of systemd, the exceedingly loud protests on message boards, forums, and the posts I wrote over the past two weeks would indicate otherwise. I've seen many declarations of victory for systemd, now that Red Hat has forced it into the enterprise with the release of RHEL 7. I don't think it's that easy. ... Go ahead, kids, spackle over all of that unsightly runlevel stuff. Paint over init and cron, pam and login. Put all of that into PID1 along with dbus. Make it all pretty and whisper sweet nothings about how it's all taken care of and you won't have to read a manual or learn any silly command-line stuff. Tune your distribution for desktop workloads. Go reinvent Windows."
Some of us stopped using Red Hat when the NetworkManager mess came out with RHEL 6.
Why would we expect RHEL 7 to be any better?
You RedHat fans have fun with your "RedHat Vista" release. :P
Oh the horror! Imagine skills that transfer across Linux distributions! I won't LIVE in such a world!
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
"Although there are those who think the systems debate has been decided in favour of systems, the exceedingly loud protests on message boards, forums, and the posts I wrote over the past two weeks would indicate otherwise.
"Although there are those who think bacon is tasty, a loud protests I've posted recently on message boards, forums, and here on /. over the past two weeks would indicate otherwise."
(Yeah, I've been here long enough to know that nobody at /. does any actual editing. Still, can I make fun of the submitter for making it sound like (s)he's the one who is going around and posting all the loud protests, and then trying to make it seem like some sort of movement?)
Yaz
It's not so much "get off my lawn," as "have your dog crap in your own yard."
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Wow, something so awful even some Gnome 3 users can't take it.
brandelf -t FreeBSD
I haven't used it and I love it!
Watching the VI EMACS holy war has grown long in the tooth and we really needed a new holy war to spice up the community!
LONG LIVE SystemD!
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Huh... guess I was lucky this past week with my Matlab install on Linux. Having never installed the monstrosity before, it was a very simple process. Have VNC session; uncompress package; ./install ... and have the required info. Yup... Difficult.