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