Re:Lennart Poettering on Systemd's Tumultuous Ascendancy in ...
by digi_owl on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:20AM
(#13505942)
That seems to be an ongoing flaw of his, and others around him. No real interest in the history of UNIX. Where it came from and why it is the way it is.
All he sees is a nice pile of drivers to bootstrap whatever computing project he wants to get done, and thats it.
Re:Lennart Poettering on Systemd's Tumultuous Ascendancy in ...
by JdeBP on Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:32AM
(#13505599)
I am unaware that systemd-terminal ever was a joke. It was there for a time, called systemd-consoled, and then quietly pulled in July 2015. Lennart Poettering failed to respond when asked about it.
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9722163
* https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...
I actually much prefer going all the way with everything-is-a-file; when Poettering tried to claim that his printer is not a file, I really wonder if a) he's even heard of Plan 9 b) he knows about PostScript.
Where I'm not a fan of systemd is that it's all written in C, instead of a higher-level, safer language, and that we're getting to a point where systemd-terminal, systemd-browser and systemd-nano aren't a joke but mandatory.