| systemd - probably a bad thing |
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Thursday, March 19th, 2015 13:56:08 GMT |
| GNU/Linux |
Here's an interesting thread I found on the Puppy Linux Discussion Forum:
End of addition.
"systemd" isn't used in Puppy Linux, so no wonder I mostly hadn't encountered stuff about it before.
Except I had recently run across this post on Tumblr, which I didn't understand at the time:
I get the impression from what I've read that "systemd" might be a serious threat to free (as in freedom), libre, open source software.
I don't understand it well enough myself yet to write clearly about it, but, hopefully just pointing out that boycott systemd discussion thread will help raise awareness of the potential problems. That discussion thread is currently 14 pages long and contains a lot of interesting info and links.
Barry Kauler, the creator of Puppy Linux, doesn't like systemd either, according to this blog post from March 2013:
Addition, 3/22/2015, 6:14 PM: And also according to this more recent blog post from Nov. 14, 2014:
I'm still not a Linux expert, and I ought to pay more attention to news in general (not just Linux news)... so, until the past couple hours or so, I wasn't even aware of "systemd" and how bad it is reputed to be, and quite probably actually is, in my opinion.
Anyway, even though I don't fully understand what "systemd" is and all the arguments for and against it, it seems like this is probably a pretty important issue, and thus worth spreading the news about.
And, for people who'd prefer non-technical information on this topic, here's another amusing Tumblr post about "systemd":