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All the BSD's have a "centralized" userspace, I wonder why they haven't recieved any flak and death threats. This is what systemd essentially is, an attempt to
by gillianseed 12y ago
All the BSD's have a "centralized" userspace, I wonder why they haven't recieved any flak and death threats.
This is what systemd essentially is, an attempt to have a standardised minimal base OS beyond the Linux kernel (again like the BSD's), I don't see how it's 'highly political', if anything it's practical, which in turn is why it has been widely accepted by distros and software which makes use of it's features, like DE's.
- chronid 12y agoNo, what BSD's have is the analogue of what in Linux land are called "coreutils". The rest is usually code from external sources mantained inside the tree for consistency.
- kjs3 12y agoAll the BSD's have a "centralized" userspace No more so than all the GNU utilities that ship with every Linux.
- darklajid 12y agoThat's not correct. BSDs come as a system, Linux is a kernel. BSDs are more like Linux distributions, but every (base) part is part of the project. You get the whole thing from one team, vs. a (more or less) curated list of independent (GNU) projects. I really don't think that these approaches are the same. I don't see any relevancy for the whole reference to BSD communities either, though.
- kjs3 12y agoThat's semantics. Linux may "just" be a kernel, but almost all distributions come with the same set of "curated" GNU utilities. With BSD, the only real difference is that the kernel and userland teams have significantly more overlap.