[ale] Sorry

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Mon Feb 8 10:44:22 EST 2021


Yeah, I'm going to bow out of further additions to this thread too. ALE
is a nice, friendly place, and my last couple posts did not contribute
to that.
 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 15:32:16 +0000
"Beddingfield, Allen via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Sorry...I didn't mean to kick off a pro/anti SystemD holy war and go
> offline for the evening. Here is what I have to say:
> 1.  No, I obviously don't condone anyone threatening Poettering.
> 2.  Based on both personal observation and accounts relayed to me by
> others who have dealt with him, he is rude, condescending, and has a
> complete disregard for "the Unix way of doing things" - one of those
> jerks who just wants to re-invent the wheel, instead of learning how
> to use the current wheel.  He is the guy everyone hates in the
> workplace. 3.  I've been around long enough to have seen Linux
> evolve, and this part of the "evolution" is sort of like a
> radiation-induced mutation. 4.  As for why it was chosen.  SUSE is #2
> in the commercial market.  If Red Hat adopts something, they have to
> follow, or spend a huge amount of effort justifying why they
> didn't/fending off Red Hat's claims of their using "out of date"
> software. 5.  Pulseaudio is a dumpster fire on the back of a train
> that is in the process of wrecking. 6.  AND MOST IMPORTANTLY:  I deal
> with SUSE systems almost exclusively for nearly 100% of my job.  That
> means I HAVE to use systemd.  It DOES NOT mean I have to like it.
> Okay, I'm done commenting on this.  Let's move on.
> 
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