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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Ship With Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS
prisoninmate writes: The current daily build of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) remains based on the Linux 4.2 kernel packages of the stable Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system, while the latest and most advanced Linux 4.3 kernel is tracked on the master-next branch of the upcoming operating system. In the meantime, the Ubuntu Kernel Team announced plans for moving to Linux kernel 4.4 for the final release of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system.
Took me some time, but eventually could get used to Unity. Usable now, less bugs and quite convenient - again give it time to get used to it.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
I'm sure there's plenty of reading material out there.
It was written by the same cadre of villains responsible for PulseAudio. Unfortunately they're Redhat employees. Debian's governance bodies had slowly been stacked with Redhat sympathizers who snuck it in through the backdoor (used an inappropriate committee to make the decision) and a Redhatter cast the tie breaking vote. When the community demanded a general vote, there was one option for "let's just go with systemd" and like 4 options for differing levels of rejection. By splitting the opposition into 4 categories, the systemd-friendly option managed to get a plurality of the votes.
Ubuntu had to follow suit because Canonical doesn't want to expend the resources to maintain an init system anymore.
It is a genuinely surprising outcome. There are attempts to fork Debian (Devuon (sp?)), but it seems many people who are serious about avoiding it are moving to BSD (where systemd will not appear since it relies on features specific to the Linux kernel).
And that is why people hate systemd. Its creator doesn't understand UNIX.
Can someone explain why ALL THE MAJOR DISTROS have switched to systemd, when all I've seen is universal hate for it?
The hate isn't universal.
It's certainly easier for distribution integrators than the old RC scripts. Also, there has been considerable external pressure because some of the major packages like Gnome more or less depended on systemd, so not having it meant no Gnone which was a showstopper. Actually you can now run Gnome without systemd but for a while that wasn't possible.
Another reason for the hate is that there are a lot of awfully obnoxious systemd fanbois out there who make claims like:
* You hate change (literally ad-homenim, attaxking the person not the message)
* Making claims about things that are only possible with systemd that demonstrably are not (I debunked a bunch of these in the last thread)
There's a lot of FUD on both sides, and frankly after the PulseAudio debacle, a lot of people have a deep distrust of Lennart Pottering (well justified IMO), and are incredibly leery of making the core of a Linux system depend on code written by a cowboy coder who doesn't seem to care about stability or quality.
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