Thinking that over, I wasn't sure if the appositeness of "straitjacket"
to systemd was obvious - if it was, apologies.
What I meant was something which was originally devised to protect
someone from harming themselves or others, but which became a symbol of
unnecessary and cruel restriction of personal liberty. Also, the "One
flew over the cuckoo's nest" sense of the sane being locked up in an
asylum run by lunatics.
On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 13:34 +0100, Peter Duffy wrote:
> Band-aid or straitjacket? (Latter probably appropriate in all senses of
> the word ;) )
>
> On Sun, 2020-09-13 at 21:22 -0700, Bruce Perens via Dng wrote:
> > The problem for me is that I would rather work on new stuff. Systemd
> > and so on are symptoms of the Unix design not really being a good fit
> > for modern demands. That doesn't mean that you band-aid them with
> > systemd, it's time for a different architecture. It is also time for
> > what comes after Open Source, as I have talked about
> > here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTsc1m78BUk
> > It's not clear how much of this I will personally get to work upon.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:08 PM terryc <terryc@???> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:13:02 -0500
> > golinux@??? wrote:
> >
> >
> > > A link to this rant was posted on FDN yesterday. I had never
> > heard of
> > > Luke Smith before and was not particularly impressed with
> > either his
> > > presentational style or his bemoaning the death of white,
> > male
> > > privilege but . . . I could very well imagine Linux going
> > down the
> > > path his "nightmare" imagines.
> > >
> > >
> > https://libre.video/videos/watch/b576019d-8957-4efb-8571-6a14e0889136
> >
> > entry for the worst video ever made?
> > Thank for watching it and summarising it.
> > >
> > > If Debian doesn't wake up and reverse course what will
> > become of
> > > Devuan? The entire Linux ecosystem as we have known it could
> > become a
> > > nostalgic footnote in the history of the digital age.
> > >
> > > It's a good time to be old . . .
> >
> > Feels that way.
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> > eventually :-)
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