Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference

jones_supa writes: Lennart Poettering, the creator of the controversial init system and service manager for Linux-based operating systems has announced the first systemd conference. The systemd.conf will take place November 5-7, in Berlin, Germany. systemd developers and hackers, DevOps professionals, and Linux distribution packagers will be able to attend various workshops, as well as to collaborate with their fellow developers and plan the future of the project. Attendees will also be able to participate in an extended hackfest event, as well as numerous presentations held by important names in the systemd project, including Poettering himself.

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systemd is for cows.

[Anonymous Coward]

You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOOOOOO! MOOOOOOOOO! Moo cows MOOOOOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU COWS!!

Re:Startup management subsystem

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice! Perhaps it should include a web browser for good measure as well. We could call it "Internet Explorer for Linux" and of course it would be both the default and follow no standards but its own.

It would be a match made in heaven!

Re:Startup management subsystem

[Anonymous Coward]

They just want to properly introduce systemd's new slideshow presentation functionality.

We are systemd

[ArcadeMan]

We are systemd. Lower your MBR protection and surrender your init system. We will add your daemons, libraries, and utilities to our own. Your code will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

We don't need more systemd hate!

[loony]

all we need is a nice little bomb... We know when and where they will be - take out their leaders and we can move on to something useful!

Re:Startup management subsystem

[bill_mcgonigle]

I tried to register for it, but the system said no tickets were available. I sent in a note about that and got a response saying that ticket availability wasn't in the plans and that I was stupid for wanting one.

Re:Piss off systemd

[Anonymous Coward]

Systemd conference -- you're going whether you want to or not.

Re:BDSM convention

[drinkypoo]

It seems to me that a systemd conference wouldn't be much different from a BDSM convention.

The BDSM convention will have a higher percentage of protected sex, and nearly everyone getting screwed will be doing so consensually. Most of them will have a good sense of humor about what they are doing, heavy D/S tops aside.

Re:Huh?

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

C'mon, this shindig will be the perfect place to showcase systemd's conference-room booking module.

systemd is my fault

[Earthquake Retrofit]

I may be somewhat more susceptible to guilt than most. Something happened to me a few years ago at the Z-80 Lounge in San Francisco. It was a day before my birthday. This guy I had never seen before sat down next to me and told me he needed my help. 'Okay' I said. If I had something else to do I wouldn't have been there in the first place.

'I need you to prevent something horrible from happening in the future, Steve.' He then nodded at the TV. There was a game on and along the bottom of the screen was a stock ticker. After reading from his tablet for a moment he said, 'Jackson is gonna score on a third-down pass in a minute.'

We watched three plays and sure enough, he was right. He proceeded to call the next series exactly. 'Nice trick.' I said, 'But this broadcast must be delayed.'

'That stock ticker isn't though, is it? Check your timepiece. The market closes in ten minutes.' He then showed me the closing price for both exchanges and bought me another stout.

It must have been a wild day on Wall Street because prices were feverishly swinging up and down. But he got the final numbers, right down to the penny. 'I'm from the future.' he said.

Now you hear all sorts of crazy talk at the Z-80 Lounge. And San Francisco IS the golden cultural capital in the hearts of hippie hackers everywhere. So I figured he hacked my tablet. "You have to stop it. It's called system..." But just then, a big hand clamped over his mouth and two big guys in suits grabbed him and dragged him out so I never knew until now what he was talking about.

Sorry.

The name is a bit funny

[sjukfan]

I admit I enjoy wordplay like systemd.conf, but since systemd uses binary log files shouldn't the conference be called systemd.bin?

Re:Piss off systemd

[grcumb]

Systemd conference -- you're going whether you want to or not.

Oh for fuck sakes, you neckbeards never give up, do you?

First off, it's not a conference at all. We're just putting a few hundred people into the same room and giving talks. Just because you think that's a conference doesn't make it one. It's actually a confluence, which is something completely different that we just made up right now.

Second, nobody's forcing you to go. We're just relocating your office there for the week. If you have a problem with that, take it up with your boss. We didn't force anyone to move; we only changed the location of the building you're presently occupying.

Third, it's not one conference at all. It's just a collection of independent sessions in which a sentence is started in one session

and finished in another. But they're complete

ly independent of one another.

And why do you hate Dear Lead—er, Lennart so much? I find his work inspiring, a triumph of the will... if you will. His Kamp—er, his struggle— has been an inspiration for everyone who loves the discipline and honour of coding in der recht*cough*sorry in the Right Way. It's merely historical necessity that you unterprogrammers must be dealt with. No mercy for the dirty hippies! You cannot continue harming the purity of the FatherCode! Hail SystemD! Lebensraum for SystemD!