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Interviews: Ask Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst A Question (redhat.com)
Jim Whitehurst joined Red Hat in 2008, as its valuation rose past $10 billion and the company entered the S&P 500. He believes that leaders should engage people, and then provide context for self-organizing, and in 2015 even published The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance (donating all proceeds to the Electronic Frontier Foundation). The book describes a post-bureaucratic world of community-centric companies led with transparency and collaboration, with chapters on igniting passion, building engagement, and choosing meritocracy over democracy.
Jim's argued that Red Hat exemplifies "digital disruption," and recently predicted a world of open source infrastructure running proprietary business software. Fortune has already called Red Hat "one of the geekiest firms in the business," and their open source cloud computing platform OpenStack now competes directly with Amazon Web Services. Red Hat also sponsors the Fedora Project and works with the One Laptop Per Child initiative.
So leave your best questions in the comments. (Ask as many questions as you'd like, but please, one per comment.) We'll pick out the very best questions, and then forward them on for answers from Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.
Jim's argued that Red Hat exemplifies "digital disruption," and recently predicted a world of open source infrastructure running proprietary business software. Fortune has already called Red Hat "one of the geekiest firms in the business," and their open source cloud computing platform OpenStack now competes directly with Amazon Web Services. Red Hat also sponsors the Fedora Project and works with the One Laptop Per Child initiative.
So leave your best questions in the comments. (Ask as many questions as you'd like, but please, one per comment.) We'll pick out the very best questions, and then forward them on for answers from Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.
> And don't even get started about binary log files. You can still use all your favorite utilities: sed, grep, awk, etc... I am not buying your story.
No, you actually cannot. The only way to do this is either to ask journald to translate from its on-disk format to a textual format, or to reimplement that part of journald yourself.
As a SysvRC replacement, OpenRC kicks the everloving shit out of systemd. I tried systemd on one of my Gentoo systems. Boot and shutdown times were -on average- significantly slower than OpenRC. Boots and shutdowns would intermittently hang for _ages_, but the various tools provided by the Systemd Cabal to perform diagnostics indicated that
a) absolutely nothing was wrong
and
b) my eyes and wall-clock were lying to me, and that boot or shutdown hadn't actually hung for ages
The story with my upgrade from Ubuntu with Upstart to Ubuntu with systemd is very similar.
systemd isn't inevitable, just as kdbus wasn't inevitable. It's just a pity that the Linux kernel gatekeepers weren't also the gatekeepers for Debian. :P