Gentoo Developers Unhappy, Fork udev

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 16 November 2012 at 06:02 PM EST. 97 Comments
FREE SOFTWARE
The udev code-base has been forked by Gentoo Linux developers after they -- and other parties -- have been unhappy with the future direction of udev as set by systemd developers.

There's a Gentoo mailing list thread that's still active about this fork. "It is no secret that many of us are unhappy with the direction that udev has taken under the leadership of the systemd developers....After speaking with several other Gentoo developers that share Linus' concerns, I have decided to form a team to fork udev. Our plan is to eliminate the separate /usr requirement from our fork, among other things. We will announce the project later this week."

Linus Torvalds has also recently criticized udev with comments along the lines of the code maintenance going into "crazy mode" and "they have made changes that were known to be problematic, and are pure and utter stupidity."

The Gentoo fork can be found on GitHub as udev-ng.
Related News
About The Author
Michael Larabel

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.

Popular News This Week