This just strengthens my theory that Windows will eventually switch to a Linux kernel. Why develop your own when you can get one for free.
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Originally posted by rabcor View Post
True... Pulseaudio was shit though and i'm glad to see it dying now that we have pipewire instead which is actually good. Pulseaudio was the growing pains to the pipewire we needed.
Systemd is great though, it's hated.. but only for it's monolithic structure, which is a pretty lame reason.
We saw the same with pipewire replacing pulse - the standardisation, bug fixing and increase lower down the stack due to pulseaudio made the switch much easier for most use cases.
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Originally posted by poncho524 View PostThis just strengthens my theory that Windows will eventually switch to a Linux kernel. Why develop your own when you can get one for free.
EEE is definitely a threat to watch out for, but probably not so easy in kernel land, where maintaining a long-lived fork is somewhat painful due to the lack of stable APIs within the kernel. However, they can start adding userspace customizations to their CBL-Mariner distro that are not GPL, and maybe pursue an EEE strategy in that way.
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Funnily enough, when I saw the news he had "quietly left" RedHat, I was about 70/20/10 split on whether he would go to Microsoft, Facebook or Google. I weighted Microsoft so heavily because I think his "not my problem, won't fix", "not a bug" (etc) attitude would go poorly at Facebook and extremely poorly at Google.
Originally posted by coder View PostBTW, I've long felt Lennart's design philosophy was more in line with that of Microsoft's. Seems like a good fit, in those terms.
Originally posted by bachchain View PostThe Devuanites will never let us hear the end of this.
Originally posted by kylew77 View PostEnbrace, extend, extinguish. Basically look at the .doc and .docx document standards and you will see where Microsoft employed it best.
Originally posted by rabcor View PostSystemd is great though, it's hated.. but only for it's monolithic structure, which is a pretty lame reason, I mean people just don't like it on a philosophical level... That said there's some truth to the argument that so many linux distributions becoming dependent on it is less than ideal, it would be nice to have some alternatives, and now that this has happened, I'm sure that we'll start seeing more distros moving away from systemd purely due to mistrust towards microsoft; and that's a good thing, cuz variety and choice is nice.
Originally posted by poncho524 View PostThis just strengthens my theory that Windows will eventually switch to a Linux kernel. Why develop your own when you can get one for free.
Originally posted by tildearrow View PostAnd the dreaded backslash will replace the forward slash in paths.......... -_-
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Originally posted by Paradigm Shifter View Post"My way or the highway"?
Originally posted by Paradigm Shifter View Postit's like a strange hybrid of parasite and cancer. Other things in the system become dependent on it, while the scope of it expands to slowly engulf the host. From a replacement init system, it now has an awful lot of functions which are not strictly init related, and only continues to grow. Some of those are convenient and useful, but it still violates the basic Unix philosophy of "write a program to do one thing and do it well".
Originally posted by Paradigm Shifter View PostI wonder how successfully Microsoft would be able to subvert the GPL licenses? By that, I mean, argue in court that changes they've made to (originally) GPL code have altered it so fundamentally that to release it to the public would harm their IP.
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