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> Linux is fragmented Ten year old FUD. Most distros are on systemd now. Whatever you want to say about systemd, it's definitely not fragmentation. Also there'
by zelly 6y ago
> Linux is fragmented
Ten year old FUD. Most distros are on systemd now. Whatever you want to say about systemd, it's definitely not fragmentation. Also there's the freedesktop project and dbus which creates a standard API for desktop applications. All Linux distros use glibc and GNU coreutils. Where's the fragmentation?
Linux desktop applications are all very fragmented and broken (GNOME, KDE, 100 different tiling window managers, 100 different music players that all suck), but that's not Linux, that's userspace.
> Torvalds has a bad opinion on ZFS
Doesn't matter. ZFS on Linux still works. Also ZFS is not immune to criticism. BTRFS is getting better and is more than adequate for everyone who is not running a CDN. Also ZFS isn't exactly usable on all BSDs, just FreeBSD (nor did FreeBSD come up with ZFS in the first place (why not migrate everything to Solaris then?)).
> Linux is being heavily influenced by corporate interests
Good. Problem? The computer is a tool not a political bumper sticker. I'm happy to use something for free that developers are paid to improve and that I still have complete control over. Linux [Android] is the most widely deployed OS in the world. It's constantly improving and lots of eyes are on the code. There just aren't enough skilled volunteers to maintain a giant codebase as critical as an OS.
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/openbsd.html https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/openbsd.html
When BSD is used by corporations, they fork it and make their improvements proprietary.
> Time to migrate everything to BSD
Then almost everything I do with my computer would be impossible except for dicking around in a web browser. How do I run containers, modern hardware, or CUDA? Hard mode: No Linux emulation.
- Qub3d 6y ago> Linux desktop applications are all very fragmented and broken (GNOME, KDE, 100 different tiling window managers, 100 different music players that all suck), but that's not Linux, that's userspace. See, I get where you are coming from, and I use Linux myself, but I feel that the author sees this as the fragmentation problem. One of the author's points is that the division between userspace and kernel is a problem, and the *BSDs offer up full operating systems, not just kernels. From TFA: "Linus Torvalds has many times made it very clear that he doesn't care about what goes on in the "Linux world", all he cares about is the kernel development" Otherwise, yeah... BSD is a great choice for some stuff, but it certainly falls short of the tools available to a Linux environment.
- macksd 6y ago>> How do I run containers Agree on all your other comments, but BSD jails and Solaris zones were a thing long before Docker made it mainstream on Linux.