On 9 September 2014 08:55, Balint Szigeti <balint.szgt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hello all > > I've just read this artic. > http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html > > What do you think guyes? > Does systemd really want to be the 'core-engine' for an OS? It sound > ridiculous for me. As I remember their target was (only) replace the init, > then they did more and more, they pushed the targets over and over, which is > not bad but just think. > > 1) replace init - get a new process/service scheduler/maintaner > 2) write a new logging system.............journalctl > 3) hard-code the dhcp and ntp client into systemd... why? just gain the > control......... > maybe there were more, I haven't read everything about systemd...... > 4) anything could be, like the article... what next? replace the kernel, > write an own X and GUI for only systemd? > and in the future we will have systemd OS for money which was developed by > community and some people just gain the lead and control. They will displace > everything else, and convince the HW and SW vendor (proprietary) to ship > their product to systemd OS then voilà, they win. > > I have a bad feeling, systemd will become a 'perfect' OS then the systemd > owners will change the license to commercial and they will just use the > community code (the US lawyers can reach anything) and they will have a > perfect code and get billions of money. > Maybe I have watched too many films but all steps lead to the same > direction. > There may be many people objecting to aspects of systemd, but all components are GPL. You may as well rewrite point 4 onwards replacing 'systemd' with 'linux' and see how that paranoia looks then. I was slightly amused by "This also allows us to implement something that we like to call Operating-System-As-A-Virus." Also, seems to rather miss the boat given containers and VMs are already here, sounds like a bit of a nightmare. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
