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They're talking about things that distro maintainers care about, namely servers. They are primarily not concerned with your workstation.

tzs 5y ago
Was Solaris more used than HP-UX or AIX in 2012?
- iso1210 5y ago
  I'm sure it was, but the numbers compared to Linux and even FreeBSD would be tiny.
- busterarm 5y ago
  I'm still interviewing sysadmins from banks who have legacy systems to support and Solaris is probably 10:1 over HP-UX.
- dagw 5y ago
  Can't speak about AIX, but it was massively more used than HP-UX. Solaris was still under pretty active development and adding new and cool features in 2012, while HP-UX seemed pretty much abandoned by HP. Itanium on HP-UX was HPs last big push on HP-UX, but after that failed to catch on they seemed to give up on the OS.
raphman 5y ago
Lennart Poettering, the author of the proposal and creator of e.g., systemd, avahi, and pulseaudio, definitely cares about workstations, I'd say.
- f1refly 5y ago
  As someone suffering from systemd, avahi and formerly pulseaudio, I wish Lennart Poettering would care less about workstations.
  - busterarm 5y ago
    Avahi in particular is classic for how when it works it barely works. If it ever works.
- 0des 5y ago
  His workstations, and not to be snooty about it either, it's just like some people prefer crunchy peanut butter, and some people ruin their lives with creamy. I liked init systems of yore. I don't ask to toss out systems because its very useful in some settings, however, I prefer the init systems we had, when it comes to my personal workstation preferences.
  - busterarm 5y ago
    All of my non-professional work systems are OpenBSD and I will tell you that BSD init is a friggin breeze. Sadly that ship has sailed, but it's finally 10-12 years later that there are some niceties to systemd that make it worth it to me (systemd-resolved in particular).
- busterarm 5y ago
  And if you recall correctly in the Debian community, adopting his systemd was a long and challenging 2-year long debate. Debian adopted systemd three years after Fedora did. Afterwards multiple senior contributors resigned from their positions due to extraordinary stress levels caused by ongoing disputes about systemd. So when I tell you the Debian community mainly cares about servers, I'm not bullshitting you and I know who the fuck Lennart is.

tzs 5y ago

Was Solaris more used than HP-UX or AIX in 2012?

iso1210 5y ago
I'm sure it was, but the numbers compared to Linux and even FreeBSD would be tiny.
busterarm 5y ago
I'm still interviewing sysadmins from banks who have legacy systems to support and Solaris is probably 10:1 over HP-UX.
dagw 5y ago
Can't speak about AIX, but it was massively more used than HP-UX. Solaris was still under pretty active development and adding new and cool features in 2012, while HP-UX seemed pretty much abandoned by HP. Itanium on HP-UX was HPs last big push on HP-UX, but after that failed to catch on they seemed to give up on the OS.

raphman 5y ago

Lennart Poettering, the author of the proposal and creator of e.g., systemd, avahi, and pulseaudio, definitely cares about workstations, I'd say.

f1refly 5y ago
As someone suffering from systemd, avahi and formerly pulseaudio, I wish Lennart Poettering would care less about workstations.
- busterarm 5y ago
  Avahi in particular is classic for how when it works it barely works. If it ever works.
0des 5y ago
His workstations, and not to be snooty about it either, it's just like some people prefer crunchy peanut butter, and some people ruin their lives with creamy. I liked init systems of yore. I don't ask to toss out systems because its very useful in some settings, however, I prefer the init systems we had, when it comes to my personal workstation preferences.
- busterarm 5y ago
  All of my non-professional work systems are OpenBSD and I will tell you that BSD init is a friggin breeze. Sadly that ship has sailed, but it's finally 10-12 years later that there are some niceties to systemd that make it worth it to me (systemd-resolved in particular).
busterarm 5y ago
And if you recall correctly in the Debian community, adopting his systemd was a long and challenging 2-year long debate. Debian adopted systemd three years after Fedora did. Afterwards multiple senior contributors resigned from their positions due to extraordinary stress levels caused by ongoing disputes about systemd. So when I tell you the Debian community mainly cares about servers, I'm not bullshitting you and I know who the fuck Lennart is.