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SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over (networkworld.com)
JG0LD writes with this news from Network World: A breach-of-contract and copyright lawsuit filed nearly 13 years ago by a successor company to business Linux vendor Caldera International against IBM may be drawing to a close at last, after a U.S. District Court judge issued an order in favor of the latter company earlier this week.
Here's the decision itself (PDF). Also at The Register.
Here's the decision itself (PDF). Also at The Register.
systemd has done far more harm to Linux than SCO could have ever managed to do.
In just a few years we've seen systemd severely disrupt the Linux ecosystem. Debian, which was once known as one of the most stable Linux distros around, has perhaps suffered the most. Systemd has caused so many problems for so many of Debian's users. Just look through Debian's mailing list archives or its bug tracker. It's unbelievable how much time systemd has wasted for so many people. And those are just the victims who bothered to report what had happened to them! Many others suffered in silence. Unable to tolerate these sorts of problems, yet others have moved away from Linux completely. They've come to use FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X, and even Windows instead of being subjected to systemd.
At this point all of the major Linux distros have switched or are switching to systemd. The only holdouts are legacy distros like Slackware, or niche distros like Gentoo. Neither Slackware nor Gentoo are replacements for what Debian once was. That's why so many have moved to FreeBSD. FreeBSD gives the sort of experience that Debian used to give.
With systemd subsuming more and more functionality, Linux becomes even less of an option for many people. A monoculture is developing within the Linux world, as as anyone with intelligence knows, monocultures are extremely dangerous. What were once simple and isolated vulnerabilities end up affecting everyone. Creativity and innovation is suppressed. The one-size-fits-all approach never works, and fits nobody well. Incest among any population leads to retardation and ruin; the Linux ecosystem is not spared this awful fate.
A couple of things...
I don't mind (I dare say that I kind of like it) systemd. Yup. It comes in handy here and I've had no problems with it at all. However, I do wish that the folks who didn't like it had more options or, more accurately, easier ways to avoid it. You can still go without systemd while using Linux. It's just a pain in the ass and limits your choices. I like choices, even if I don't like all the choices. I like being able to decide and, while I still can, doing so is not really all that easy. It's unfortunate that there aren't a lot of alternatives.
Anyhow, I thought this damned thing was over years ago? Not that it's ever impacted my choices or anything but I thought this had already ended... I guess I was not paying enough attention. I could have sworn there was a celebratory thread on Slashdot and everything. I seem to remember a lot of happy posts and gleeful postings. Even if it wasn't over, I'm not sure that many people actually gave a shit any more. Hell, every comment that I can think of, between then and reading this, all referred to it in the past tense.
So, yeah... Err... I thought this was already decided? I wonder what the benefit was, and for whom, to keep it going. Ah well... I guess it's a cause to celebrate. If anyone that was at my place on NYE wants to come over this weekend, lemme know. I'm sure I can find something big and dead to char and we can always go get some more fireworks. Hell, it's bound to be small so instead of buying kegs I'll get the good stuff.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
However the difference between the "flusterfuck dyslexic script hackery" and the new thing is if portions failed to work the old way the system would still come up with whatever it has.
This shit of hanging with no log available and then finding that just unplugging an RF mouse dongle is the secret to the booting or not is not what we are looking for in a modern system. Lots of things writing in parallel to a binary log? The 1960s called and said something about obvious failures wait to happen due to race conditions that Lennart has somehow not heard about.