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Systemd's Lennart Poettering: 'We Do Listen To Users'
M-Saunders writes: Systemd is ambitious and controversial, taking over a large part of the GNU/Linux base system. But where did it come from? Even Red Hat wasn't keen on it at the start, but since then it has worked its way into almost every major distro. Linux Voice talks to Lennart Poettering, the lead developer of Systemd, about its origins, its future, its relationship with Upstart, and handling the pressures of online flamewars.
If all the various distribution maintainers and developers have pretty much all agreed that systemd is the way forward -- which they pretty much all have -- why should they go out of their way to make sure you personally feel you have the correct amount of choice?
He could have created The Washington Monument, that does NOT change the fact that the whacko thought it was perfectly acceptable to sit down ON STAGE no less and ATE TOE CHEESE in front of God and everybody!
Ya know just because somebody was ONCE an insightful person does not mean that they will always be insightful, hell or even sane for that matter. Here we have a person that shows he has no concept of correct public behavior, openly brags about being a homeless squatter, and his views are often frankly self contradictory and don't follow logic (see his "what is a circuit" for some truly amazing logic hoop jumping) and the man doesn't even have the grace or good sense not to piss on his own license by having a childish tantrum and naming a clause after a company he believed didn't uphold "the spirit" of the GPL instead of simply admitting he made errors when coming up with GPL V2. Any way you slice it the man is the best poster child MSFT and Apple ever had, he looks, dresses, and behaves like its 1979 and computers are just toys for homebrew clubs and academia.
As for TFA? Sadly Pottering is another one that MSFT and Apple really should send a fruit basket to, because its him and the devs of his ilk that keep Linux in the backroom instead of the showroom and the reason why is simple...they will NEVER EVER let Linux become fucking stable! I swear these devs and their "itch scratching" are from bizarro world, they are like "Oh noes, things am stable and most stuff am working! This is no good, users am happy and can update without breakage! Quick lets change enough internals that many devices am broken and stability worse than Win2K, that will make users miserable!".
I mean for fucks sake you had MSFT being run by STEVE "Buzzword McBingo" BALMER and you STILL can't gain share, ever wonder why? Well you had the DE devs help out MSFT by taking a steaming dump on the UI with the barely alpha quality KDE 4 release, The Gnome 3 mess, or yeah and Linus made sure to fiddle with the kernel just enough to cause serious driver issues, not to mention the Mickey Mouse Pulse audio which to this very day is usually the most crash prone part of any Linux build. Then you had the whole "What is gonna replace the shitty X Server" mess, Mozilla having to disable hardware acceleration in Linux (which frankly is still piss poor and a decade behind Windows), not to mention here it is 2015 and Linux STILL doesn't have a simple GUI for rolling back drivers or the system if an update takes a steamer on the system (something Windows has had for a decade and a half) and the driver situation is still such a mess hardware OEMs can't just put a penguin on the box and a Linux driver on a CD because hey, what works now may not work 6 months from now!
Sadly at the end of the day Linux is never gonna get any better, its just gonna get different. This is why Linux is getting its ass handed to it by "other" because at the end of the day the devs would rather crank out a new version with new bugs and new problems than fix what they have. Cranking out new software is a hell of a lot more enjoyable than bug fixing, regression testing, writing docs, hell this is the real reason why Linus won't allow Linux to have a stable driver ABI, something every. other. OS. has. because it might mean he couldn't just tweak and twiddle with the kernel like its still 1993 and Linux was only a hobbyist project!
Its a damned shame that FOSS advocates won't hold Linux to the same standards they hold MSFT and Apple, if they flat up refused to take the Mickey Mouse alpha quality shit you could probably whip Linux into an OS that would make Windows 10 look like Windows 3 and OSX look like System 7, all the parts are there, if the devs would actually work to make things better instead of crapping out new versions every other year.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.