Re: Hi, I'm back (somehow)

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On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 06:37:29AM -0500, William Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2026 05:14:40 +0200
> "Tim Tassonis" ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Forgive my recent silence as an editor of LFS/BLFS, this was almost 
> > exclusively down to professional matters (I got laid off by the 
> > company), I'm still fully behind the idea, goals and general management 
> > of LFS/BLFS.
> > 
> > However, as those of you knowing me probably assumed, I'm of course 
> > totally and unequivocally against the recently made decision of dropping 
> > SYSV support in LFS/BLFS.
> > 
> > But as I was not of any help at the time of the decision, I naturally 
> > have to accept it, I had the chance to object, but didn't take it, my bad.
> > 
> > I have now decided to go on like this: I will maintain a separate fork 
> > of LFS/BLFS at my home, for anybody that does not want to submit to 
> > systemd as being the only way to run a self-created Linux system.
> > 
> > Because I don't, and I never will. And if it's just because this bloated 
> > piece of garbage was provably shoved down everybody's throat by a 
> > provably lying and manipulative former employee of Red Had and now 
> > Microsoft, with the very clearly stated goal of driving non-compliant 
> > UNIX's out of business.
> > 
> > I cannot be part of that, sorry, I'm too moral for this.
> > 
> > But I still hope that my sysv fork and Xi Ruoyao's mainline can maintain 
> > a friendly partnership. I just would like LFS to point to a choice 
> > outside of Poetteringverse. It's much nicer there.
> > 
> > 
> > Bye
> > Tim
> > 
> 
> Greetings Tim,
> 
> No matter what happens, I've been through the ringer, too, many times.
> I dusted off the old Dual Pentium II, next to the Pentium, 486 and 386.
> 
> Dusted my eyes off and remembered that I had LFS 5.1.x on the machines and figured the turmoil we had back then. After that was the GCC3 to GCC4 days, a whole slew of situations. Hang in there the best that you can.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> William Harrington

Hello William,

That's some classic hardware!  Good to hear it is still in good use.

Regards
Pierre

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