The Poetterisation of GNU/Linux (2013)

Re:The Poetterisation of GNU/Linux (2013) by pmoriarty on Sunday February 14, 2016 @01:27PM (#11099308)

"The long litany of examples includes Ubuntu Unity, Gnome Shell, KDE 4, the /usr partition, SELinux, PolicyKit, Systemd, udev and PulseAudio, to name a few."

Add to that systemd's ambition to take the place of package managers now.[0]

Really, I've come to the conclusion that the major Linux distros are no longer Linux distros. They're systemd distros.

Anyone who wants to continue to use a traditional Linux distro (or even a traditional unix) is better off looking elsewhere.

[0] - http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linu...

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Re:The Poetterisation of GNU/Linux (2013) by nextos on Sunday February 14, 2016 @01:54PM (#11099439)

There are some distros that do not run systemd. GuixSD and void linux to name a few.

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Re:The Poetterisation of GNU/Linux (2013) by pmoriarty on Sunday February 14, 2016 @02:42PM (#11099644)

They're not major, mainstream distros.

Linux on mainstream distros is dead.

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Re:The Poetterisation of GNU/Linux (2013) by delcaran on Monday February 15, 2016 @02:55AM (#11102025)

Slackware Linux maybe is not mainstream, but is a huge distro...

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Re:The Poetterisation of GNU/Linux (2013) by LoneWolf on Monday February 15, 2016 @04:01AM (#11102253)

Don't forget Gentoo

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Re:The Poetterisation of GNU/Linux (2013) by digi_owl on Sunday February 14, 2016 @01:39PM (#11099368)

Yep. More and more it seems like systemd is where former kernel devs go to get around Torvalds' policies.

Just look at Sievers dumping on the debug boot flag, or how they unilaterally disable sysrq, or overriding the kernel defaults surrounding namespaces.

Expect rkt to turn into the packaging system outlined bu Poettering soon enough...

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