• systemd (Subject line fixed as a public service)

    From Kenny McCormack@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 12 09:56:25 2024
    Jim Jackson , dans le message <slrnvlk56u.2qa.jj@iridium.wf32df>, a crit:
    My God, how did we all manage running services before systemd came along?

    Badly, with services that have crashed and nobody noticed for weeks.

    Some teams have been working on better replacement for SysV init, but
    without the industrial strength of Red Hat they could only stay niche.


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  • From Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 12 11:26:01 2024
    On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:56:25 -0000 (UTC)
    gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) wibbled:
    Jim Jackson , dans le message <slrnvlk56u.2qa.jj@iridium.wf32df>, a crit:
    My God, how did we all manage running services before systemd came along?

    Badly, with services that have crashed and nobody noticed for weeks.

    Important services don't go unnoticed for weeks.

    Some teams have been working on better replacement for SysV init, but
    without the industrial strength of Red Hat they could only stay niche.

    Oh rubbish. Community traction is usually whats required for something to
    be accepted. Only in the last 15 years or so did corps start to force their ideas into linux. Red Hat was notorious for having its own kernels mods
    back in the day. Maybe it still does.

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  • From Nicolas George@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 12 11:47:33 2024
    Kenny McCormack, dans le message <vjec09$1jpju$1@news.xmission.com>, a
    Θcritá:
    Badly, with services that have crashed and nobody noticed for weeks.

    Some teams have been working on better replacement for SysV init, but
    without the industrial strength of Red Hat they could only stay niche.

    I wrote that, not you, liar.

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  • From Kenny McCormack@21:1/5 to nicolas$george@salle-s.org on Thu Dec 12 13:41:04 2024
    In article <675acd55$0$5211$426a74cc@news.free.fr>,
    Nicolas George <nicolas$george@salle-s.org> wrote:
    Kenny McCormack, dans le message <vjec09$1jpju$1@news.xmission.com>, a
    crit:
    Badly, with services that have crashed and nobody noticed for weeks.

    Some teams have been working on better replacement for SysV init, but
    without the industrial strength of Red Hat they could only stay niche.

    I wrote that, not you, liar.

    It is not clear whom you are calling a "liar".

    My post made it clear that you wrote the content and I was only correcting
    your inadvertent failure to fix the Subject line.

    One of the knuckleheads (LDO or Muddle - can't remember which) messed up
    the attribution line (failed to fix it - lot of that going around).

    --
    In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue.
    -- Barack Obama --

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  • From Nicolas George@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 12 17:50:04 2024
    Kenny McCormack, dans le message <vjep5g$1juts$1@news.xmission.com>, a
    écrit :
    It is not clear whom you are calling a "liar".

    You, for putting “From:” yourself in front of my words.

    My post made it clear that you wrote the content

    Hiding it in the headers that nobody reads is not “clear”. That's your second lie.

    and I was only correcting
    your inadvertent failure to fix the Subject line.

    It is not your place to do that for other people. Next time you feel like
    it, go solve a jigsaw puzzle in the middle of a highway instead.

    And if you are too incompetent to do it without breaking threads, do not do
    it at all.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Muttley on Thu Dec 12 22:33:07 2024
    On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:26:01 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:

    Only in the last 15 years or so did corps start to force
    their ideas into linux.

    Nobody can “force” their ideas into Open Source. Ideas only get adopted
    for their intrinsic merit, not because of any big-budget marketing
    campaign to tell everyone how wonderful it is.

    What would be the business model for such a marketing campaign, anyway?

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  • From Nicolas George@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 12 23:34:54 2024
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro , dans le message <vjfob3$2vfl9$4@dont-email.me>, a
    écrit :
    Nobody can “force” their ideas into Open Source.

    Of course they can. Have enough hired developers contribute to the project, bully the project leader into resigning in favor of a democracy that does
    not give more voice to the people to know the project inside-out and intend
    to be there for the long run, and bam, you can do whatever you want with the project.

    I am not making this up, I am summarizing what has been happening in a major Libre Software project over the last fifteen years.

    They took that long because they tried to go too fast and were forced into a fork they eventually drove into the ground. But they have been back.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Nicolas George on Fri Dec 13 03:04:51 2024
    On 12 Dec 2024 23:34:54 GMT, Nicolas George wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro , dans le message <vjfob3$2vfl9$4@dont-email.me>, a
    écrit :

    Nobody can “force” their ideas into Open Source.

    Of course they can. Have enough hired developers contribute to the
    project, bully the project leader into resigning ...

    Oracle tried that sort of thing, with the Open Source projects it
    inherited from Sun. Remember what happened? The contributors left
    wholesale to set up a fork. And the forks ended up doing better than the originals.

    So no, it pays not to antagonize the Open Source community. They have long memories.

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  • From Nicolas George@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 13 07:46:59 2024
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro , dans le message <vjg88j$36h24$5@dont-email.me>, a
    Θcritá:
    Oracle tried that sort of thing, with the Open Source projects it
    inherited from Sun. Remember what happened? The contributors left
    wholesale to set up a fork. And the forks ended up doing better than the originals.

    So no, it pays not to antagonize the Open Source community. They have long memories.

    Your example proves that it does not always work.

    Your example does not prove that it never works.

    We have an example proving that its it working at least once.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Nicolas George on Fri Dec 13 08:43:48 2024
    On 13 Dec 2024 07:46:59 GMT, Nicolas George wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro , dans le message <vjg88j$36h24$5@dont-email.me>, a
    écrit :

    Oracle tried that sort of thing, with the Open Source projects it
    inherited from Sun. Remember what happened? The contributors left
    wholesale to set up a fork. And the forks ended up doing better than
    the originals.

    So no, it pays not to antagonize the Open Source community. They have
    long memories.

    Your example proves that it does not always work.

    Your example does not prove that it never works.

    We have an example proving that its it working at least once.

    No, we have no such example. We have merely your claims about Red Hat
    motives, which are not borne out by any independent evidence.

    For one example, the discussions within Debian over adoption of systemd
    are a matter of public record. For another, the decision by Mark
    Shuttleworth to abandon upstart in Ubuntu and adopt systemd is also a
    matter of public record. Go and see if you can find any “pressure” that
    Red Hat might have exerted on either of them; you won’t.

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