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Linus has the proverbial moral authority to bootstrap an init system and the technical skill to pull it off. Amusingly, this strikes me something like the chair
by theonemind 9y ago
Linus has the proverbial moral authority to bootstrap an init system and the technical skill to pull it off. Amusingly, this strikes me something like the chairman of the Federal reserve hinting that he thinks interest rates are too high. Hopefully, the systemd developers will take notice and clean up some of their act. (Not to insinuate anything. They have widely known problems in playing nice with other projects, taking feedback, etc.)
- SolarNet 9y agowaits patiently for Linus to get fed up with ___ enough to write it himself dies
- theonemind 9y agoI don't really think he would, will, or wants to. But that he could, and actually might if he begins to feel that systemd hurts Linux, might create some positive pressure on the systemd developers. That's exactly the thing, like the fed. They have enough power that an implied threat can fix things (sometimes to some extent) without them actually taking any action.
- striking 9y agoI mean, he wrote git for that reason.
- dredmorbius 9y agoAt this point, less likely on systemd devs than those who employ them (Red Hat) and distro maintainers (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, etc.).
- throwacct7835 9y agoActually Gentoo still uses sysvinit by default, which is one of the reasons I like it. They also maintain a fork of udev (eudev) that doesn't require systemd.
- hyperion2010 9y agoOpenRC is default, but yes.
- qb45 9y agoOpenRC is a collection of init scripts, not the PID 1 /sbin/init binary AFAIK.
- hyperion2010 9y agoThis is true, OpenRC depends on sysvinit to run PID 1, but given the comparison to systemd we have to ignore the (unixy) distinction between OpenRC and sysvinit since systemd has eaten everything >_<.
- qb45 9y ago> Gentoo still uses sysvinit by default > OpenRC is default > we have to ignore the (unixy) distinction between OpenRC and sysvinit Nice try :)
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- dredmorbius 9y agoAt this point, less likely on systemd devs than those who employ them (Red Hat) and distro maintainers (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, etc.).