I wouldn't say VIM hasnot improved. It has improved quite a bit and is quite modern. They even have drop in packages now that automatically gets things set up, it also has a lot of hte modern, new features. That said, have you tried gedit?
he's not a whack job, he's a person who rigidly does not compromise certain principles. That is actually really hard because every day we make compromises. Moral rigidity is sometimes looked upon as crazy sometimes. You should think of him as a canary in a coal mine. The further you start moving away from the original goals of hte movement, the louder he gets. He's a warning bell. For that reason alone, FOSS needs him.
NIH indicates there was a solution before in the desktop/kernel space that met their needs.
Even if you have a security hole, the whole point is that it is sandboxed. This puts the onus on the application writer to fix the problem not the distro. The distro is not a scalable solution.
There are plenty of people who like GNOME 3. It might not be your cup of tea, but there are several alternatives that implement the original windows 95 design.
Or maybe, LInux is being used in ways that it was not intended (eg embedded devices) and it requires capabilities since it's being shipped in products. Linux is not just some sysadmin tool now. It's everywhere now, in your bluray,, stereo, phones, cars, and all of them require changes. Do you really want your stereo to take a long time to boot up when we could use a parallelizing boot start up that will make the customer experience better?
Actually XP was a significant improvement over NT considering how many million LOC that was changed. Everybody expected it to fall over. But it didn't.
I fail to see what is ignorant about people writing features and wanting people to use them. You have companies like Red Hat whose job is to integrate them in a stable manner with some extra work to migrate to the new paradigm.
How often do you touch your init system, honestly? I never touched mine in my 20 years of doing Unix systems. You need to read up about systemd and understand how it works and what it does. You fear change, but your level of risk is no different than integrating some new product from a vendor. If you decide to move to RHEL or some other enteprise linux,, you'll be covered.
Now if you are winging it, then of course, you should take as long as you need to do it correctly. I suggest you read Lennart's series of documentation on system administrating systemd. You're not losing any functionality and gaining some.
Too much navel gazing about change. Here is the reason behind kdbus. Primarily it's for application sandboxing and making sure that a bad actor does not do something bad to something else. As GNU/Linux gets more popular, we want to be able to make sure that we can contain bad actors as much as possible. It's also a step in the direction to have a universal app spec instead of having to have each distro package the same damn app. I miean, how much duplicate work do you want to do? It makes it easier for people who write apps to have GNU/Linux as a target instead of having to pick the most popular distro at that point of time.
Because, you're arguing in the wrong place. Join LKML and ask there. Declarative statements like yours will likely be met with some amount of sarcasm because nobody here answering you are involved in kernel development. Also, it's a personal weakness. The sarcasm that is.
GNOME 3 is doing quite fine. There are plenty of people who like it. It's not perfect, but software never is. But like most software, it evolves.
What power old GTK2 apps were ported to QT or abandoned? Just curious.
Gosh, developers don't know the needs for systems administrators, eh? Well, sounds like you volunteered to show how it is done. I look forward to your contribution in this space.
You clearly need to read the man page for jounralctl, you can spit out nice text stuff just fine.
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I wouldn't say VIM hasnot improved. It has improved quite a bit and is quite modern. They even have drop in packages now that automatically gets things set up, it also has a lot of hte modern, new features. That said, have you tried gedit?
Linus doesn't manage the project anymore. Honestly, though, a lot of people like it because it's just really fast.
Why do we not like ESR? (I got my own reasons)
he's not a whack job, he's a person who rigidly does not compromise certain principles. That is actually really hard because every day we make compromises. Moral rigidity is sometimes looked upon as crazy sometimes. You should think of him as a canary in a coal mine. The further you start moving away from the original goals of hte movement, the louder he gets. He's a warning bell. For that reason alone, FOSS needs him.
NIH indicates there was a solution before in the desktop/kernel space that met their needs. Even if you have a security hole, the whole point is that it is sandboxed. This puts the onus on the application writer to fix the problem not the distro. The distro is not a scalable solution.
Yeah, most people find SELinux difficult to use. I can understand disabling it. That doesn't make the entire system bad.
Indeed, and it is making it's own reality.
I was referring to the GUI design. Most of today's DE are based off the design of windows 95.
There are plenty of people who like GNOME 3. It might not be your cup of tea, but there are several alternatives that implement the original windows 95 design.
This is true, but a lot of systems folks have been looking forward to this.
How do you know the U.S. Dept of Energy isn't asking for this stuff in the first place?
Or it could be modified to include this. Nothing says the standard has to remain the same for all of eternity.
Or maybe, LInux is being used in ways that it was not intended (eg embedded devices) and it requires capabilities since it's being shipped in products. Linux is not just some sysadmin tool now. It's everywhere now, in your bluray,, stereo, phones, cars, and all of them require changes. Do you really want your stereo to take a long time to boot up when we could use a parallelizing boot start up that will make the customer experience better?
Actually XP was a significant improvement over NT considering how many million LOC that was changed. Everybody expected it to fall over. But it didn't.
So you are jumping ship to Windows then?
I think Steve has other things to worry about. Anyways, Linux is evolving away from typical Unix mentality. We'll see how things come along.
I fail to see what is ignorant about people writing features and wanting people to use them. You have companies like Red Hat whose job is to integrate them in a stable manner with some extra work to migrate to the new paradigm. How often do you touch your init system, honestly? I never touched mine in my 20 years of doing Unix systems. You need to read up about systemd and understand how it works and what it does. You fear change, but your level of risk is no different than integrating some new product from a vendor. If you decide to move to RHEL or some other enteprise linux,, you'll be covered. Now if you are winging it, then of course, you should take as long as you need to do it correctly. I suggest you read Lennart's series of documentation on system administrating systemd. You're not losing any functionality and gaining some.
I assume you mean that Linux is being monolithic instead of following the Unix credo.
Sure, glad I could help. :)
Well, at least you have Mate or Cinnamon, both are good choices for the old paradigm. Definitely there is room for choice.
I am just saying that this behavior is not surprising in FOSS
I posted the rationale with some links
http://lwn.net/Articles/551969/
Linus is okay with it. Have to worry about Al Viro. :-)
Here is an updated talk by Greg K-H that he gave on KDbus, he posted this about 3 days ago. https://github.com/gregkh/presentation-kdbus
Let's stop all the FUD, and educate yourself on the reasons behind on this.
Because, you're arguing in the wrong place. Join LKML and ask there. Declarative statements like yours will likely be met with some amount of sarcasm because nobody here answering you are involved in kernel development. Also, it's a personal weakness. The sarcasm that is.
GNOME 3 is doing quite fine. There are plenty of people who like it. It's not perfect, but software never is. But like most software, it evolves. What power old GTK2 apps were ported to QT or abandoned? Just curious. Gosh, developers don't know the needs for systems administrators, eh? Well, sounds like you volunteered to show how it is done. I look forward to your contribution in this space. You clearly need to read the man page for jounralctl, you can spit out nice text stuff just fine.