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I'm going to call it, on this day: 5/11/2016 Systemd is the new vim vs. emacs The road to the GNU/Linux unification, was forged by the great wizard of Torvald
by phantom_oracle 10y ago
I'm going to call it, on this day: 5/11/2016
Systemd is the new vim vs. emacs
The road to the GNU/Linux unification, was forged by the great wizard of Torvalds. Torvalds powerful use of the: fuck this code is ugly, fix your fucking mistakes, don't break shit via the kernel ... kept the flame of the kernel burning
Meanwhile, across the lake from Linux Use-Land, in the industrial city of Enterpriseyness, a small section of Linux Use-Land citizens formed their RedHat, to show the world how amazing life across the lake is.
They initially served Linux use-land as respected/renowned citizens, but eventually the cities 'hungry' citizens, known as "shareholders" and "government" consumed the Hat.
Beyond consumption, a brainwash-attack was launched by the dirty robber-baron known as "MicroSoft", in which RedHat was tortured into the philosophy of "embrace, extend, extinguish".
RedHat knew that Torvalds was growing weak, as his "Linux Foundation" depended on Enterpriseyness for money. Together, a task-team from Enterpriseyness set out to explore infiltration of Linux Use-Land. This task-team included: NSA, CIA, GCHQ, MicroSoft, Google, Facebook, Cisco, et. al (from the leaked documents of Enterpriseyness arch-enemy: WikiLeaks, a non-redacted version also showed RedHat to be in this task-team).
Enterpriseyness started their exploration via the Gospel of Hacker News. This Gospel was a powerful driver of the future, as reaching the "front page" of said Gospel would ensure eternal bliss and success (and entry into tech-heaven: Silicon Valley). A popular fable was the "Docker", in which this whale-hunting organization showed that with enough good words from the Gospel, hijacking PID1 was plausible.
As such, the CIA activated their sleeper-cell in the Linux Use-Land, known only as "Poettering" in leaked-documents and the trojan-horse called "systemd" was born. The systemd is now being built to consume Linux Use-Land and create a new colony for Enterpriseyness.
PS. This is fiction + written for humour :)
- i336_ 10y agohttp://video.fosdem.org/2014/Janson/Sunday/NSA_operation_ORCHESTRA_Annual_Status_Report.webm http://video.fosdem.org/2014/Janson/Sunday/NSA_operation_ORC... (46:05) (that link is a 302) I was reminded of this video by Paol-Henning Kamp (2014) when I read this. It sort of gets at the same set of ideas. (Feel free to share similar videos, anybody...?)
- tonyplee 10y agoTorvalds is Yoda. "Linux Foundation" is the "Jedi Council". Thousands of Kernel contributors are Jedi Masters. RedHat is the Empire. Systemd is the Deadstar? :)