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If “gnu” gets headline billing for providing some user land tools then really “systemd/Linux” should be the current operating system title because systemd perva

If “gnu” gets headline billing for providing some user land tools then really “systemd/Linux” should be the current operating system title because systemd pervades the distros mentioned in this article. In many ways systemd IS the operating system outside the kernel.

johnea 2y ago
And in fact systemd/linux is what I consider the biggest digression in linux over the last decade. It pushes for a single upstream for all of userland. With IBM being that single upstream. After decades, I'll leave archlinux in my next migration because of this.
- sho_hn 2y ago
  Neither of the systemd lead maintainers works for IBM (or the same company).
- ChocolateGod 2y ago
  > It pushes for a single upstream for all of userland. With IBM being that single upstream. I hate to break it to you but what do you think the GNU Project is?
- pessimizer 2y ago
  It's astounding how easily people slipped from defending Red Hat owning so much of Linux with their giant labyrinthine subsystems to literally defending IBM ownership. When Google or Facebook buy IBM, they'll be calling everyone purists for even mentioning it.
nixdev 2y ago
Yeah.. it's rather unfortunate. I am grateful for https://chimera-linux.org/ https://chimera-linux.org/ and https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC