Re: GNOME 49 and SysV systems (possibly affecting other DEs in the future too)

On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 01:14:35PM +0200, Rainer Fiebig wrote:
> Am 23.10.25 um 23:55 schrieb Pierre Scotney ([email protected]
> via blfs-dev Mailing List):
> 
> /* snip */
> 
> > thread. SystemD/GNOME is the the product of RedHat(IBM) wanting to 
> > make > GNU/Linux into MS Windows, which they have the freedom to do, 
> > but they should not try to enforce this onto the Free Software 
> > community.
> Sorry for intruding here.  I didn't want to say so in my previous 
> posts but I'm also increasingly getting the impression that corporate 
> interests may be behind this ever stronger and ever harder to unravel 
> entanglement of components.  Who else would profit from it?  The user 
> definitely not.
> 
> I'm not a conspiracy buff.  But I do have the notion that there's a 
> worrying and dangerous development under way that needs to be 
> resisted.
> 
> Rainer

Hi Rainer,

I agree, the corporate interests value complexity, it makes it harder 
for devs and users to understand the underlying technology, so they can 
sell their support services. The slow death of tldp.org and the 
increasing complexity of distros using SystemD/GNOME/XFCE made me 
rethink my computing needs and develop a reductionist attitude, the less 
software on my LFS/BLFS GNU/Linux systems the better, and the more focus 
I have become.

Cheers
Pierre

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