On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On 2015-08-15, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Out of all of those suggestions, the only one that might have any >>>>> = real value would be renaming "kernel" to "linux", but only if we >>>>> were interested in introducing other FOSS kernels as options into the >>>>> distribution. At this time, I seriously doubt anyone wants to do >>>>> this... >>>> >>>> Thanks to systemd it's impossible. >>> >>> Oh no. Something our distro has never really considered is not >>> possible without replacing two of the fundamental components of the >>> operating system the distro is based on. What a shame that thing that >>> was never really going to happen anyway is now made slightly harder. >>> >>> josh >> >> It's been considered repeatedly and tried in the small scale, by mach >> and HURD and other micro-kernel enthusiasts. They are now SOL. > > No they aren't. They simply have more work to do. If they believe > they are now SOL, then I begin to doubt how seriously they considered > the whole thing. They'll have to replace a _lot_ more, now that Gnome, NetworkManager, and logging for most system daemons is dependent on systemd. And systemd is absolutely reliant on a Linux kernel. > You and I clearly are not going to agree on practicality, utility, and > feasibility of an undertaking such as replacing the Linux kernel so I > believe this should be our last exchange. I wish you well. I wish you well, as well. I wish your optimism weren't misplaced, I really do. It could have been fascinating work with a micro-kernel instead of the Linux kernel, but with much of the rest of the Fedora architecture intact. > josh > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
