On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 10:41:36PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 16:32:53 +0200, Wolfgang wrote in message
><ZhALlfKiNS9lNKZF@localhost>:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 07:20:25AM -0300, altoid via Dng wrote:
>>
>> >systemd is a developer designed/sanctioned cancer which will
>> >eventually do away with Linux as we know it.
>>
>> The Linux, and UNIX-like system as I saw it quite some time ago,
>> rightfully or not, is already gone if you believe Richard Hughes, as
>> it seems "a principal engineer at Red Hat" - on the Fedora user list
>> in 2019 to a user who before jokingly complained about the
>> Windows-like Fedora: "Is This Windows?....."
>>
>> "The Unix that you think you are
>> using does not exist any more"
>>
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJQCKK5IUWIW7XNYVR2LNDDXE6ERVF4Y/
>
>..if you read that, you would have learned he has been paid
>handsoemely to make sure that "The Unix that you think you
>are using does not exist any more", just like Lennart Poettering.
>

The decisions for the changes in modern Linux were made by many, if my
guesses are correct. Not just a handful, but a whole crowd of decision
makers who said yes to the change?

And actually, I have sympathies for Richard Hughes for being open and
honest.

There are still options other than having to install a systemd-ed
Linux if someone wants a UNIX-like system.

BTW: I'm wondering why your message I'm answering to now still didn't
seem to make it to the list ..
--
Wolfgang