Oddbean new post about login | logout Exactly. Another concern is that systemd is a huge control vector over the Linux ecosystem for the big tech industrial complex: It's basically a bunch of RedHat (which is owned by IBM) and Microsoft employees who get to design all the standards and steer the course of development. This "gang" has a long history of pushing controversial changes without consensus from the broader open source community. Here's an interesting article that goes a bit more in depth about this: https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-real-motivation-behind-systemd.html The first blue box in this article from the same blog links to the full announcement of the Devuan fork on the Debian mailing list: https://unixdigest.com/articles/my-choice-of-operating-system.html I have read up on all of this a couple of months ago and it really kinda reminds me of the blocksize war and COINTELPRO...
Great contribution!
I must admit that this particular critique of systemd never really impinged on my awareness. I've always associated the systemd blob with Leonard Poettering and not some huge corporate entity. #foss #linux nostr:nevent1qqspr525wyacp2estyeu983jj0lp4kwh6848gspxthftkk97hcfthcspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsyg84s6wxn2vzpgute8gpddrvvupf3shrqj7tx46z2wex06pa6uy6supsgqqqqqqsv38v2t
Look where the rabbit hole took me https://nosystemd.org/ nostr:nevent1qqsg6yhk3zhnj5fp3yrrt457a75f7jzdvh685lzvdqxwqw0xaq4tq8gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygyqe23nxlfnwc8wx4tfwfs27zsr3tn2stndpvv4cldnclgzavu5acpsgqqqqqqs2xm49u