Re: Boycott Systemd

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Frank Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:58:46 -0500
> Barry Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> ‘Diversity’ here is deviation from established Unix/POSIX philosophy
>> in system design. Years of effort to simplify programming are being
>> thrown away on grounds that resemble common arguments in favor of the
>> ‘tight integration’ that is Microsoft Windows. I mean, seriously, many
>> of the pro-systemd arguments are like those I have heard for using
>> Windows: that applications ‘just work’, because they were written for
>> a dominant system.
>>
>
> Good design is highly flexible and configurable with little assumption
> made on the nature or needs of the user.
>
> Let's consider a simple program to display digital images.  A good program
> design will not only contain built-in routines to accommodate the standard
> image formats but will also provide non-specific raster buffers to allow
> a user to view unconventional or even non-existent formats.  A good program
> design will also make no assumptions about the nature of the image data but
> rather allow the user to create any needed specifications.  A professional
> program thus allows both standard conventions but keeps the overall capability
> unrestricted and open ended.
>
> As best as I can understand (I am not an expert in systems programming)
> under Torvalds the Linux OS conforms to such professional design goals.

No, the Linux kernel follows sound technical reasoning, not dogma.

>> What I really fear, though, is what if one day the kernel team is a
>> different entity, more like other entities in the Linux world?
>
> Someone has to write an apocalyptic novel about Linus Torvalds being
> assassinated and his role taken over by the evil figures from ???.

Read the link I just posted. Linus basically agrees with the "evil
figures" from your conspiracy theories.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México