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On Monday, 11 December 2017 11:59:03 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> |
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wrote: |
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> > Just my two cents. I will not answer any reply to my little contribution |
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> > to |
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> > this thread; |
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> Good. I can't remember any intervention from you that I would miss. Of |
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> course, I wouldn't dream of telling people how they should think, nor |
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> would I deny anyone the right to be an activist. |
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> > Enjoy your echo chamber. |
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> Thank you for your contribution, Dr. Yes, we know you're a Dr. We know |
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> it because: |
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Crikey! I didn't expect my question to trigger yet another thread of 'systemd |
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Vs freedom of choice (non-systemd)' arguments. Dr. Canek has been an advocate |
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of systemd for years now and has posted his views on this topic more than |
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once. He has tried hard to make gentoo users see the light in the superiority |
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of systemd and put his arguments across. He has also done a lot of |
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development work to establish systemd in Gentoo. His views are somewhat |
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parochial - only those who (can) code have an influence if not a right to |
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determine the direction of travel - I paraphrase of course. There is truth in |
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this and anyone can recognise that money can buy developer hours and direct |
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their development effort. |
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The facts remain that RHL and their employees have shaped the Linux eco-system |
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to suit their business interests; spinning predictably and reliably thousands |
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of identical VMs in data centres. The MSWindows monolithic stack architecture |
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is something they wanted/needed and this is what they developed. |
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The fact also remains that binary distros and other development projects |
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decided to gravitate towards major development areas (cloud and embedded |
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computing) where commercial interest and development demand has been greater. |
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Lack of devs and maintainers especially for smaller distros means they decided |
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to ride on the back of systemd and minimise their own development load. Linux |
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exists on the desktop too, but this represents a really small percentage of PC |
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users. Linux desktop users on Gentoo systems is an even smaller number and I |
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am guessing of an increasingly advanced age demographic. |
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I am grateful that Gentoo has retained openrc and provides a choice for those |
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of us who would prefer to not use systemd. I use systemd on a couple of |
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systems out of necessity/convenience, but I would not like it on my PC |
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systems. If I wanted this opaque Just Works™ philosophy I would have stayed |
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with MSWindows or AppleMac, both of which I have used for years and frustrated |
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me to hell - well MSWindows definitely does. However, for the majority of the |
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population these OS remain the best suited choice. So, I think we should live |
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& let live, but as gentoo users at least try to influence gentoo to retain a |
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freedom of choice most binary distros have walked away from. |
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Just my 2c's. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |