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Systemd-Free Artix Linux OS is Looking For Packagers (artixlinux.org)
MrBrklyn (Slashdot reader #4,775) writes: Artix Linux, the young systemd free OS based on arch, is reaching a critical point in it's development and calling for new packagers.
Here's more from the ongoing thread on the project's forum: You don't have to be an expert in the occult arts for that; an elementary grasp of Linux in general and how PKGBUILD works should be enough for basic contributions. Help and training will be provided, free of charge!
Here's more from the ongoing thread on the project's forum: You don't have to be an expert in the occult arts for that; an elementary grasp of Linux in general and how PKGBUILD works should be enough for basic contributions. Help and training will be provided, free of charge!
I am scientist. I have to learn new stuff every day. I develop new stuff every day. But I have no sympathy for people wasting my time by breaking standard tools or conventions with no good reason. And the "you are just to lazy to learn new things" argument is just BS. I want to spend my time learning interesting things and not have to relearn how to do basic stuff with my computer because some random dude at Redhat thinks the ideas he has are so important that he can waste the time of everybody else.
Funny, I am a scientist and an engineer, and I can evolve. But since I am a good scientist and a good engineer, I will not evolve in a bad direction, and hence I will not use systemd. Live is just to short to use crappy unnecessary improvements made by people with small skills and huge egos.
Mindlessly running after a really demented hype is not "evolution". The correct term is "devolution" and it is not a good thing.
Incidentally, if you cannot recognize and build on things that are in a finished state and are more than good enough, then you are most definitely not a scientist or an engineer. Then you are just a hack.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I don't agree that replacing sysIV init is a good idea. All the arguments for that boil down to "not invented here".
Why is it that so many tech people cannot let things that work well the fuck alone?
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I disagree.
The hate is real (and has been discussed to death already), but the list of alternatives is depressingly small. Linux Distros are a necessary component of the Linux ecosystem with updates and fixes. If the options are between a distro with an init system you don't like, or some obscure/niche distro which doesn't have extended support options, the decision has been made for you. And unfortunately systemd has reached that level of penetration.
And THAT is why additional distros coming along without systemd is newsworthy... (Well, by slashdot standards I guess).
This issue is only for Luddites who are stuck in the past. Once systemd achieves its ultimate goal of moving every available service and user application into a single executable, distros aren't even going to need "packages" anymore.