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On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:16:27PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote |
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> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Miroslav Rovis <miro.rovis@××××××××××××××.hr> wrote: |
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> > It's been discussed over and over again. Lots of people are firm in |
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> > their understanding that Lennart is an actor by and for the big |
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> > business. Me too. |
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> Well, he is a Red Hat employee. Nobody really debates that. |
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Maybe it's not intentional spyware malice, but rather that home users |
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are being jerked around while Redhat re-writes linux as a corporate OS. |
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So systemd gets your machine running 2 to 5 seconds faster? So what, |
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you say. But Redhat is into cloud stuff... |
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https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing and they have to |
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quickly meet spikes in demand by clients, and there are service-level |
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agreements with financial penalties if they don't. There are 2 ways to |
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do that... |
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1) Have a lot of VM's and/or dockers idling in the background sucking up |
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cpu and ram and electricity, to meet sudden spikes in demand. |
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2) Have fewer VM's and/or dockers idling in the background sucking up |
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cpu and ram and electricity, but be able to spin up new instances more |
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quickly. |
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Having just a few developers at Redhat is not enough to maintain |
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systemd, so they push systemd everywhere via their connections, so that |
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many open source users and dvelopers participate in testing and |
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maintaining systemd. |
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Systemd does all sorts of management that isn't really required by the |
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regular home user, but Redhat doesn't give a hoot about their experience |
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being made more difficult. Redhat only cares about their paying |
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customers. |
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Similarly, the vast majority of home users have a machine with one |
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ethernet port, and in the past it's always been eth0. Now the name |
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varies in each machine depending on the motherboard layout; oogabooga11? |
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foobar42? It may be static, but you don't know what it'll be, without |
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first booting the machine. In a truly Orwellian twist, this "feature" |
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is referred to as "Predictable" Network Interface Names. It only makes |
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things easier for corporate machines acting as gateways/routers, with |
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multiple ports. Again, the average home user is being jerked around for |
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a corporate agenda. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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