[OT - maybe] systemd conspiracy theories
Given all the talk about conspiracy theories, it occurs to be to point
out this statement by none other than Lennart Poettering
(http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html
on 9/1/2014) in a blog post titled "Revisiting How We Put Together Linux
Systems"
About a quarter way in, in a section titled "What We Want," he writes:
"The systemd cabal (Kay Sievers, Harald Hoyer, Daniel Mack, Tom
Gundersen, David Herrmann, and yours truly) recently met in Berlin about
all these things, and tried to come up with a scheme ..."
Mind you... he goes on to write that what they want is a "scheme that is
somewhat simple, but tries to solve the issues generically, for all
use-cases, as part of the systemd project. All that in a way that is
somewhat compatible with the current scheme of distributions, to allow a
slow, gradual adoption. Also, and that's something one cannot stress
enough: the toolbox scheme of classic Linux distributions is actually a
good one, and for many cases the right one. However, we need to make
sure we make distributions relevant again for all use-cases, not just
those of highly individualized systems." But....
systemd, of course is neither "simple," nor is it all that "compatible
with the current scheme of distributions," nor does it "allow a slow,
gradual adoption." And for sure, it does not fit the "toolbox scheme of
classic Linux distributions." The truly operative phrases are "for all
use-cases, as part of the systemd project."
So let's see - "Cabal," "Scheme," "What We Want," "Revisiting How We Put
Together Linux Systems," "for all use-cases," "as part of the systemd
project."
With the added note that, at PID1, the boot process hands all control of
a machine to the init process (to quote the init manpage "Init is the
parent of all processes")
- we add the power and control aspects of all good conspiracies.
Put it all together, and one could make a good case that "the systemd
project" is OVERTLY a conspiracy of "the systemd cabal" to control all
processes running on all Linux machines in the universe.
Just saying.
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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