Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-04 Thread JMZ
Is there really a huge learning curve for .bashrc and xinit? .bashrc is mostly a way to make an alias list. What I fear about snappy and other modularized systems is unnecessary complexity. I fear that simple commands such as tar -t are going to be replaced with a multiplicity of commands whic

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-04 Thread Xen
Xen schreef op 05-10-2016 3:32: In short, the discrepancy between what a user can do and what root can do, is too big. The result of this is that most services are installed completely system-wide and there is nothing less than that. Now you may think containers are a solution to that but i

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-04 Thread Xen
Himanshu Shekhar schreef op 03-10-2016 16:33: 3. Flatpak vs Snaps. Both are about to turn great. However, I feel like all major decision makers should come together to work on one standardized desktop ecosystem, and rule out the chaos of different distributions. Both are independent efforts to s