is a pretty obvious statement that Wayland is a long way from being ready for prime time.
Au contraire, mon frere
Ubuntu has a strong track record of deliberately choosing things that are not ready for prime time - the move back to X is probably an indication that Wayland is finally stable.
the BSD's aren't changing to meet the newer needs of the current world.
Maybe not your needs - definitely mine:
I can and do pass on to my grandchildren what I learned about Unix in 1978 and in all the years since.
I want an internet facing system that works 24/7, securely processing financial transactions in real time, with a couple of hours attention every few months.
I can switch architectures and still use the same code I used/wrote/tested before.
I can avoid systemd (yes, that matters - systemd killed my cat)
I have other needs too, but they have no bearing on OS choice;-)
People somehow argue that there's a huge win here if we take all their money and redistribute it as wage raises for their employees, making everyone 2.5 cents per hour richer. That won't pay for healthcare.
Some people MAY argue that.
I argue that if you are not paying your employees enough to survive on - so they need social security benefits - then you are probably undercutting your competitors who pay decent wages, which are taxed to provide said benefits to your workers.
If your employees cannot live on their wages - then it should be illegal to distribute profits to your shareholders, as this is stealing from your competitors as well as mistreatment of your employees. The shareholders can deal with the CxOs if they find they are not getting dividends because their management team is delighting in abusing the employees. This approach would solve a load of evils in one go.
However, being nasty to the underdog is "the American Way".
While there is plenty of evidence that some people are as dumb as the average US senator, there is no need to use an obscure book. Try a typical secondary school book, or a Mills and Boone, or the most popular ever: a Gideon Bible. (You will find one in your hotel room - use it and leave it there to avoid suspicion).
For added security, you can have an agreed algorithm for choosing the start location eg the first five digits on the front page of today's newspaper + your cat's birthday,
OR
a set of digits from an agreed broadcast on a numbers station (even if you have no control over the numbers station).
OR
The football results.
Sure its insecure if you leak the algorithm - but is insecure if you leak the plain text - generally, when it comes to secrecy, leaking is bad.
Anyone would think you lot leave your pron lying around in the open!
As I diabetic, I can tell when my blood sugar is high - my eyes hurt and it becomes harder to see. In fact, for over a year before I was diagnosed, I kept going to doctors, opticians and even the eye hospital complaining my eyes hurt. They all said "There is nothing wrong with your eyes". As soon as I was diagnosed and given Metformin, the discomfort went away - but it comes back if my blood sugar gets high.
If the authorities have a backdoor key, it's only a matter of time before the criminals get that key too.
I fully expect the bookies to take bets on whether the authorities lose the keys before the black hats find them. I am still considering my position on this one.
The key difference is ubiquity and the accessibility to the tools by a non-expert.
Nope - the key difference is whether your government is into control freakery.
Uncrackable encryption is available to anyone who bothers to ask, and has been since before the invention of paper. Anyone can create completely uncrackable one-time-pad based systems with a pencil and paper and the use of a few brain cells. Steganography was known to ancient Greeks, and plenty of ancient codes have still to be broken.
I bet there are quite a large number of languages in regular use that no-one in the CIA, FBI or TSA can speak. It is also true that some TLA agencies can crack Rot13, but presumably quite a few can't. Mandating buckets with holes in is not going to eliminate theft of liquid either. Sometimes you will have to do detective work to solve crimes but "You can't win them all". Mandating that everyone writes all their thoughts in a placard and holds it above their heads at all times won't stop people from lying. Hell, nothing stops politicians from lying. And there is clearly no limit to stupidity.
It is about time somebody claimed to have a patent on "Ultra-crap" because
a) They would get rich quick and
b) they would save us from this kind of drivel
No, wait...
I, personally, have applied for a patent on "piezoelectric powered ultracrap".
The most obvious application would appear to be giving submarines enemas, but we are working hard to find other uses, possibly even legitimate ones.
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FTFY
It is obviously time for Trump to put his money where his mouth is - and ban the US dollar!
FTFY
Some people are not working on home computers!
But what if you are root, and want a GUI?
Or does your system administration never do anything more complex that a single DOS command?
so .. pretty much in keeping with Ubuntu mindset. Why are they dumping it again?
Au contraire, mon frere
Ubuntu has a strong track record of deliberately choosing things that are not ready for prime time - the move back to X is probably an indication that Wayland is finally stable.
Maybe not your needs - definitely mine:
I have other needs too, but they have no bearing on OS choice ;-)
Take your current world off my lawn!
So that explains why my serial ports don't work any more!
I am fine on groceries. I want code that is reliable and secure. I will continue using OpenBSD - but not as my dinner.
No, it says "you inherit your mother's cooking"!
Some people MAY argue that.
I argue that if you are not paying your employees enough to survive on - so they need social security benefits - then you are probably undercutting your competitors who pay decent wages, which are taxed to provide said benefits to your workers.
If your employees cannot live on their wages - then it should be illegal to distribute profits to your shareholders, as this is stealing from your competitors as well as mistreatment of your employees. The shareholders can deal with the CxOs if they find they are not getting dividends because their management team is delighting in abusing the employees. This approach would solve a load of evils in one go.
However, being nasty to the underdog is "the American Way".
Not if you are American.
Or any single computer with un-patched Meltdown susceptibility cracked.
Maybe. But their Linux tools are complete shite.
While there is plenty of evidence that some people are as dumb as the average US senator, there is no need to use an obscure book. Try a typical secondary school book, or a Mills and Boone, or the most popular ever: a Gideon Bible. (You will find one in your hotel room - use it and leave it there to avoid suspicion).
For added security, you can have an agreed algorithm for choosing the start location eg the first five digits on the front page of today's newspaper + your cat's birthday,
OR
a set of digits from an agreed broadcast on a numbers station (even if you have no control over the numbers station).
OR
The football results.
Sure its insecure if you leak the algorithm - but is insecure if you leak the plain text - generally, when it comes to secrecy, leaking is bad.
Anyone would think you lot leave your pron lying around in the open!
As I diabetic, I can tell when my blood sugar is high - my eyes hurt and it becomes harder to see. In fact, for over a year before I was diagnosed, I kept going to doctors, opticians and even the eye hospital complaining my eyes hurt. They all said "There is nothing wrong with your eyes". As soon as I was diagnosed and given Metformin, the discomfort went away - but it comes back if my blood sugar gets high.
That would ft better with the rest of her policies. But would not be news.
I fully expect the bookies to take bets on whether the authorities lose the keys before the black hats find them. I am still considering my position on this one.
Nope - the key difference is whether your government is into control freakery.
Uncrackable encryption is available to anyone who bothers to ask, and has been since before the invention of paper. Anyone can create completely uncrackable one-time-pad based systems with a pencil and paper and the use of a few brain cells. Steganography was known to ancient Greeks, and plenty of ancient codes have still to be broken.
I bet there are quite a large number of languages in regular use that no-one in the CIA, FBI or TSA can speak. It is also true that some TLA agencies can crack Rot13, but presumably quite a few can't. Mandating buckets with holes in is not going to eliminate theft of liquid either. Sometimes you will have to do detective work to solve crimes but "You can't win them all". Mandating that everyone writes all their thoughts in a placard and holds it above their heads at all times won't stop people from lying. Hell, nothing stops politicians from lying. And there is clearly no limit to stupidity.
a) They would get rich quick
and
b) they would save us from this kind of drivel
No, wait ...
I, personally, have applied for a patent on "piezoelectric powered ultracrap". The most obvious application would appear to be giving submarines enemas, but we are working hard to find other uses, possibly even legitimate ones.
The system is not there for people like you.
It is a "Dimocracy - government of the dim, by the dim, for the dim!"
^^^ This. A thousand times this!
Look how rich it made Ross Perot.
That was the last straw. There is no way I would ever use proprietary software for anything mission critical again.