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0 pointsrektide3y ago0 comments

> Large part of the value of Linux for me is stability and lack of churn

Systemd is 13 years old.

As far as I'm concerned, the complains against churn run out after the project is old enough to drink. Especially if it's not just well adopted, but by far the most popular option.

In general, having open source but being afraid to change it sounds like hell to me. I personally believe in Linux & open source because it lets us keep improving & iterating & changing. Open source embodies the soft in software, and is the best vector computing society has for bringing light & clarity to a confusing but powerful man-made microverse.

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stcroixx2y ago· 1 in thread

Linux is an IBM product at this point. Might as well use AIX. Makes me sad, but it’s done. With what they did to kill centos and rocky I’m switching our stuff to open BSD. Pushing these changes were strategic redhat business decisions masquerading as open source contributions.

rektideOP2y ago

As a Debian user, it doesn't affect me. Supposedly back ported sources are also available just no longer tagged for RHEL, and if that's true my sadness is somewhat limited for my fellow distros, even if they are so heavily corporate in origin. My world & the Linux world keeps getting incredibly better every year, in my view.

This 254 release is amazing, just so much stuff. Utterly unreadably long but posted some favs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36516792

Chin up, man! Or best of luck over in openbsd land.

JdeBP2y ago

What and where were you drinking at age 13? (-:

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