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"That piece seems a bit ... unbalanced." "for them a list like this is probably great" I wouldn't describe the article as great, because it strayed so horribl
by VLM 12y ago
"That piece seems a bit ... unbalanced."
"for them a list like this is probably great"
I wouldn't describe the article as great, because it strayed so horribly off topic and the answer is wrong.
By analogy it would be like asking a question along the lines of "please inform me generally about the marketplace for 3rd party iphone cases" and then instead of getting a survey of the iphone case marketplace, the response is a half dozen paragraphs about the relative superiority or inferiority of windows phone, and the philosophical implications of blind love of change vs blind avoidance of change, and the politics of blah blah and then at the end finally an answer like "Otterbox cases have a good reputation, and VLM on hacker news claims regardless of device mfgr, if he can put a device in an Otterbox case he puts it in an otterbox case, and (insert list of inferior competitors to Otterbox)"
The other aspect I don't like is the answer in small detail is wrong, there is no uncertainty, Ubuntu is just reskinned and 3rd party support of Debian, so obviously "some time" after Debian goes 100% systemd then Ubuntu will go systemd. Its only a matter of time, Debian being Ubuntu's upstream. I guess theoretically the only way for Ubuntu to avoid it would be Ubuntu switching to Gentoo as upstream (guess it could theoretically happen, however unlikely) or avoid the question entirely by going out of business (again afaik not likely).
- epdtry 12y ago>obviously "some time" after Debian goes 100% systemd then Ubuntu will go systemd. Its only a matter of time, Debian being Ubuntu's upstream. Ubuntu has been using their own init daemon, "upstart", since 2006. After Debian announced their plans to switch to systemd, Ubuntu announced that they would follow suit instead of continuing to use upstart.