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Systemd's Lennart Poettering: 'We Do Listen To Users'

Posted by Soulskill on from the disagreeing-is-not-ignoring dept.

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.

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  1. Re: RMSDS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Stallman is like a third party in the US. Good to get ideas from, but never follow follow them fully and by god, never actually put them in charge of anything important.

  2. "We do listen to users" by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Their impotent wails of despair give us sustenance."