I find myself reminded of a recent-ish article where someone tried to install Ubuntu on a Lenovo workstation, and found that the UEFI would only accept two partion labels. That was Windows and RHEL. It would happily boot Ubuntu when the label was changed to RHEL, and things works just as well, but it does make one stop and wonder about the position RH holds these days...

low level GUI plumbing. It is X without the networking stuff, and assumes you have a GPU to play around with.

Watching that is just as likely to drive people away, as the attitude of the presenter is up there with the one displayed by the systemd maintainers...

The major think breaking said transparency was that everyone and their dog wanted to use OGL for something, and bypassing X by talking straight to the hardware and dumping the result as a bitmap into X again.

This approach is by its very nature not network transparent, as it assumes that the program code lives on the same machine as the hardware used to draw the result.

there are implementations for doing this over the network, but nobody seemed interested in adopting it.

Sadly i think that after Poettering went live with his rant about the Linux community, the whole systemd issue has turned into a "gamergate" style shit storm.

It seems to boil down to this behavior having changed, for the better, with more recent systemd versions. But RHEL is using a "old" version.

One may well think of the relationship between RHEL and Fedora as similar to the one between Ubuntu and Debian.

Fedora is as close to bleeding edge as you can get without going rolling release, and a major testbed for what RH will put into RHEL down the road.

Also means that if you can get your project to become part of the Fedora install set you have pretty much made it...

Best i can tell, you can use Wayland as a display driver for Xorg (THE X server right now, iirc).

Frankly that is the way i see myself using Wayland, as basically a way to render the whole X session using OGL. This instead of using X as a "minimal" container for a OGL "window".

Actually that bug may already be fixed upstream, and the proper place to report it is to RH bugtracker.

Basically, RH has used a "old" systemd version for RHEL7.

Sadly these kinds of issues muddy the water regarding systemd critique, as it allows blanket dismissal of complaints...

Never mind that you can load the smaller ASMs onto just about anything...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

>As cluttered and dated as SysV is at least you don't have to take pieces of it apart to change what flags are being used to call some secondary command at boot time.

And that may be touching on a big issue. sysv en its like was created in an era where you could not easily spin up another server as needed, and doing a full reinstall for a "minor" issue was seen as insanity.

Thus systems that could be fixed in place, with minimal tools, where the order of the day.

Now however we have a generation that has grown up accustomed to doing reinstalls at the drop of a hat, thanks to desktop computers. And their server environment makes heavy use of virtual machines and containerization. Neither of these are conductive towards a mentality of fixing issues in place, never mind making sure they stay fixed.

In essence they are doing service uptime via machinegun, not belt and suspenders engineering. Who cares if a instance crashes, there are 1000s ready to take over, and it will be rebooted in seconds anyways.

Consumerism has reached the server rack...

And that may be what is driving this new, wider, definition of autism forward.

Where before your kid and other kids would survive in some fashion in a local community because everyone was expected to be somewhat self-sufficient (maybe not a grand life, but a survivable one), now everyone is expected to bend over backwards for some "persona" to get their gruel tokens. And if you don't bend like they want you do, it is game over.

So the whole push about "normal" is newspeak for "don't rock the boat!".

And that sounds like someone deeper in the spectrum, more towards "classic" autism than the modern day grab bag that include aspergers and some other labels at the "shallow" end.

Never mind that rules seems to subtly shift from place to place and context to context. Most people don't notice because their brains pick up on it and internalize it by instinct.

About your PS, they also keep boincing between "systemd can do so much" and "systemd is just a init!".

It is like they insist on not giving the init part a separate name in face of the scope creep, and instead using the confusion to frustrate opponents and brandish them clueless in the eyes of onlookers.