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Systemd has gone from a technical cancer for Linux systems to a political one. If only every major distribution didn't break backwards compatibility to play wi
by noosphr 7mo ago
Systemd has gone from a technical cancer for Linux systems to a political one.
If only every major distribution didn't break backwards compatibility to play with the cool kids.
Time to get back to programs that do one thing and do it well.
- cluckindan 7mo agoWell said. systemd is against the UNIX philosophy and shouldn’t be the default.
- exe34 7mo agosadly this is a revert. I wish they would go all in, and encourage everyone to move off.
- noosphr 7mo agoIt is a rejection of a revert. From the comment closing the revert by Poettering: >It's an optional field in the userdb JSON object. It's not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it's standardized iff people want to store the date there, but it's entirely optional.
- exe34 7mo agooh right, that's great then, let the Titanic maintain course!
- 9dev 7mo agoHave fun debugging your brittle init scripts. All my systemd servers are working flawlessly, have done so for years, and will continue to do so. The Linux ecosystem would be such a vastly more enjoyable place if you people would take all that energy you put into that petty fight over systemd into something productive.
- noosphr 7mo agoI'm on OpenBSD. Seeing Linux drama at this point is just entertainment. The inferior technology stack pushed by big tech and defended by people who know better has been something else. You'll take my software freedom from my cold dead hands.
- 1718627440 7mo agoI already considered trying a BSD, but the GNU parts are the things I have no problem with and confound myself. So BSD might not be the answer, when it's the non-GNU parts of my GNU/Linux install that annoy me.
- noosphr 7mo agoThe GNU parts of GNU/Linux were written the way they were so the FSF wouldn't get sued by AT&T. Come to the dark side and see what software can be when written for programmers instead of lawyers.
- 1718627440 7mo agoAny suggestions for which BSD I should try? I currently like Debian, because of the stability and them removing unwanted features and integrating software with the OS. I mostly run a 10years+ laptop.
- noosphr 7mo agoI got into OpenBSD purely for the politics. It has the most unapologetic hacker ethos from the 90s. It is also the most toxic of the BSDs and the least likely to suffer from a hostile takeover.
- anthk 7mo agoI used to use OpenBSD, but license wise I'm more pro-GNU. Hyperbola will rebase their OS from GNU/Linux to Hyperbola BSD. The thing is: - wifi blobs under OpenBSD = easy kernel panics. Atheros ath9k drivers were many times easier to debug - Ditto with nasty Radeon blobs. The more blobs you have, the less stuff you can understand. Again, these are a good source of kernel panics. - Blobs from sound SOCs are no better and they look sketchy as hell. Thus, my daily OS it's a netbook with 9front and I regret nothing. From GNU, these would be more interesting if they turn into Scheme at full drive, using Coreutils/Findutils and the like just as legacy interop with Unix and they used for instance some weird Lisp based shell as Emacs does with eshell with can do crazy stuff much easier than with SH, which can be crazy difficult to achieve some tasks. No wonder the Unix folks ran way from it (and from X11) and embraced rc from some Unix v8 at day 1, among rio instead of the X11 disaster. A much easier syntax, no sockets, no bullshit. You know Go's simplicity with dial()? Literal the same there, forget getting crazy with POSIX. I would love the same from GNU. No Gnome, no Systemd, a Guile based desktop environment, fully integrated with Shepherd, config.scm and the rest of Scheme written tools. A second Lisp Machine? Maybe, but faster and without 40 minutes long reboots.