[Mageia-dev] kernel 3.0 is a big mistake in cauldron

Sat Jul 16 23:33:32 CEST 2011

+
+> The above statement clearly says "I've only read one feature of 
+> systemd"
+
+Maybe it's not about systemd. Maybe it's about upstart. Or maybe
+it's about a half-dozen init system I don't care about -- and you know
+why?
+
+Not just because I'm not a sysadmin, but because the public image --
+those 99% of the enthusiastic blog posts and reviews and whatever
+the Linux fanbois are doing -- only stress on boot time charts, and
+"hey, this one boots 1 second faster!"
+
+The bling-bling & glitter is not my fault. This is how Linux is marketed
+-- and not only by Ubuntu/Canonical.
+
+Still, restarting the network w/o losing any connection (I can't figure
+out how this is possible) should not belong IMVHO to the init system.
+It could as well be a specific change only related to networking.
+There must be more than one way to do a thing.
+
+> I can't say I'm surprised that you're jumping to conclusions again 
+> and
+> making up your own reason and justifications as this is exactly how
+> you've behaved on this list thus far.
+
+This doesn't change the fact that in Linux, as soon as a technology is
+mature & stable enough, someone gets on steroids and decides to
+develop a totally different replacement, which is then pushed on the
+market while not entirely production-ready.
+
+Of course, RHEL won't get it until it's production ready (except that it
+got KDE4 with plenty of bugs), but by "market" I wasn't only referring 
+to the commercial offerings. Market is also people trying to escape
+the Microsoft tax.
+
+I am using Linux because it's funny, but XP SP3 is far more stable
+to me, so I always keep a working partition with it. 2 BSODs in 2 years
+(and it's constantly updated), at pair with 2 kernel panics in 2 years
+(for stable distros!), but hundreds and hundreds of KDE or apps crashes.
+
+I'm not jumping to any conclusion, I'm just not a fan of anything. It's hard
+to find someone working in IT that is not proud of the field -- you too are
+proud. I am working in IT and I don't praise anything. I'm sick of the lack
+of quality in the software field, that's all, and planned or perceived 
+obsolescence is one of the causes, unnecessary complexity is another
+one, and there are many more -- mostly cultural and a sign of our ages.
+(Maybe I'm too old and, as an electrical engineer, I remember the times
+when everything that worked was hardware and wired logic at most.)
+
+R-C
+