Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu
by peterwwillis on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:44PM
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> Think about how nice it is that we don't have to recompile most things for most kernel versions.
Yes, nobody has ever had to recompile their application to work on a new kernel. If you mean that's nice that there's binary backwards compatibility, I agree. I don't see what this has to do with supporting multiple systems.
> Why do we have to set up multiple startup script mechanisms?
Why do we have to support multiple <insert any kind of software> ?
> We're moving more and more to having unified low-level services across Unices
AFAIK, the only thing I know of moving toward middleware unification specifically is Linux desktop software. Choosing to use systemd in exclusion of everything else is "unification" in the same way that nationalism/xenophobia/homophobia are. (i'm aware of how mean that sounds, but it's the closest comparison I can think of)
It is certainly nice that there is now middleware that abstracts the underlying software that controls the hardware, for example, or that authentication and authorization are more uncoupled. But this is really almost the opposite of what systemd does.
Yes, nobody has ever had to recompile their application to work on a new kernel. If you mean that's nice that there's binary backwards compatibility, I agree. I don't see what this has to do with supporting multiple systems.
> Why do we have to set up multiple startup script mechanisms?
Why do we have to support multiple <insert any kind of software> ?
> We're moving more and more to having unified low-level services across Unices
AFAIK, the only thing I know of moving toward middleware unification specifically is Linux desktop software. Choosing to use systemd in exclusion of everything else is "unification" in the same way that nationalism/xenophobia/homophobia are. (i'm aware of how mean that sounds, but it's the closest comparison I can think of)
It is certainly nice that there is now middleware that abstracts the underlying software that controls the hardware, for example, or that authentication and authorization are more uncoupled. But this is really almost the opposite of what systemd does.