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On 2011-09-18 15:31, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> Hey, that's really cool. |
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I agree. |
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> Just don't expect everybody to run our systems without the modern |
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> parts of the stack just because a Commodore 64 cannot run it. |
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I think you need to take a closer look; it does support a lot of |
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"modern" parts of the "stack" (as you call it); it's just focused on the |
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things that matters (for an embedded system). It is the mindset that I'm |
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after; it seems even kernel developers are thinking "oh, we have so much |
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memory here so it doesn't matter if we use a few GB here" (yes, I'm |
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exaggerating). Intel and AMD can't increase the clocks anymore so |
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they've started to throw more hardware on the ever increasing demand for |
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computing power... there will be a time when the "bloat" will take it's |
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toll on more users. |
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> Many of us actually like the modern features of the kernel, glibc, |
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> udev, dbus, systemd, pulseaudio, glib, X.org, GStreamer, Gtk+ and |
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There's a lot of people that like Windows 7 and MacOS X too, I hear. |
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What the ultimate goal (in my view) for systemd, pulseaudio etc. seems |
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to be is to mimic (poorly) the mentioned OS's. Why go through all that |
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trouble when they can just go out and buy what they want? |
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The Linux kernel, glibc and X I "like", udev used to be nice (well, my |
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currently installed version works fine), the rest is redundant (more or |
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less) - in my view (particularly pulseaudio & systemd); I really don't |
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understand what problems they are solving. |
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> GNOME (or Qt and KDE). In my case (and I have used Linux for a long |
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I also have used GNU/Linux for quite a while (1995) and have seen "it" |
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grow from quite humble (but capable) beginnings to what it is today |
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(even Linus Torvalds thinks the kernel is bloated) and I'll refrain from |
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commenting on gnome (and to a lesser extent KDE). The best install I've |
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ever had was a LFS install around 2000 running on a Abit BP6 with two |
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celeron CPUs and a scsi harddrive (9GB)... :-) |
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> time), the whole stack looks full of awsomeness, and stuff just works |
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> most of the time. |
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No comment. :-/ |
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Best regards |
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Peter K |
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