Re:Systemd redux: The end of Linux
by pjmlp on Friday November 21, 2014 @04:08AM
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> One thing I've realized about the Linux community through all this systemd flame warring is how unbelievably conservative a large subsection of it is. There's this huge so-called "neckbeard" continent that views anything architecturally beyond the 1980s as a huge affront to Unix.
Fully agree. It seems some people are quite happy with a few xterms in the X-Windows replicating a twm user experience, stuck in the past.
I would also add Oberon, Active Oberon, Singularity, Verve and the current unikernel/library OS research.
> OS I still feel is hiding behind the JVM
Android kind of got us there. Now with Java being compiled to native code, maybe other C++ layers might be replaced in future versions, given how Android team looks at the NDK.
All in all, I want the Xerox PARC and Douglas Engelbart's visions, not the AT&T one.
Fully agree. It seems some people are quite happy with a few xterms in the X-Windows replicating a twm user experience, stuck in the past.
I would also add Oberon, Active Oberon, Singularity, Verve and the current unikernel/library OS research.
> OS I still feel is hiding behind the JVM
Android kind of got us there. Now with Java being compiled to native code, maybe other C++ layers might be replaced in future versions, given how Android team looks at the NDK.
All in all, I want the Xerox PARC and Douglas Engelbart's visions, not the AT&T one.