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

On 10/24/25 6:14 AM, Rainer Fiebig ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> Am 23.10.25 um 23:55 schrieb Pierre Scotney ([email protected]
> via blfs-dev Mailing List):
> 
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>> 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 don't think it is anything nefarious.  I think the commercial distos find it easier 
to package everything into one package.  It also makes it easier for binary 
applications to target systems from different vendors.

For those of us who want to understand the workings of the system it is not a good 
system.  Most users do not care.

As for the issue of 'user services' instances of applications seems to be a 
reflection of where multiple users use a single system at one time.  I have not seen 
that in over 30 years, but I don't work in an environment any more that would need it.

It seems that major developers want a single system that handles any situation. The 
cost of that is complexity.  The alternative, it seems, is LFS.

   -- Bruce

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