Re:Linux greybeards release beta of systemd-free Debian fork
by chris_wot on Monday May 02, 2016 @10:21PM
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Ah, I'm following :-) I think perhaps the kernel is more esoteric than systemd, and as a team they have proven themselves over time. I think they get a fair amount of scrutiny from competitors (the BSDs, and Microsoft) and they have a very robust development process so that might explain why it's not as controversial.
Re:Linux greybeards release beta of systemd-free Debian fork
by digi_owl on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @03:45AM
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The kernel also lives in kernel space, so unless one go micro-kernel, and dumps everything but the bare minimum into user space, a kernel will always be a big blob of code (most of it drivers, btw).
My point isn't so much what my three kernel threads are doing as why nobody asks these questions, in general, about the kernel. Just about every criticism of systemd applies double to the kernel, but nobody is forking Debian to replace the kernel. (And very few people are contributing to the existing efforts already in Debian to officially support alternative kernels.)