Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem
Michel Talon
talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr
Wed Aug 22 10:33:35 UTC 2012
David Jackson said:
> In reference to the claims that systemd developers "do not care about
> portability", this is deceptive and misleading.
You should read the following interview of Lennart Poettering
http://linuxfr.org/nodes/86687/comments/1249943
The amount of hubris and self confidence he deploys is really
astounding. I will just quote two extracts:
" LinuxFr.org : Systemd use a lot of Linux only technologies (cgroups,
udev, fanotify, timerfd, signalfd, etc). Do you really think the Linux
API has been taking the role of the POSIX API and the other systems are
irrelevant ?
Lennart : Yes, I don't think BSD is really too relevant anymore, and I
think that this implied requirement for compatibility with those systems
when somebody hacks software for the free desktop or ecosystem is a
burden, and holds us back for little benefit. "
and cherry on the cake
"LinuxFr.org : Why Linux desktop hasn't been adopted by the
mainstream users ? Linus Torvalds seems to think it's mostly a social
issue and not a technical one. Do you agree with him ?
Lennart : I think we weren't innovative enough in the interface, and we
didn't have a convincing message and clear platform. If you accept MacOS
as benchmark for user interfaces, then we weren't really matching it, at
best copying it. I think this is changing now, with GNOME 3 which is a
big step forward as an interface for Linux and for the first time is
something that has been strictly designed under UI design guidelines.
"
--
Michel TALON
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