I don't mean to pick on these few, but they're indicative of a larger trend toward users who appear to believe that reading manuals and learning OS internals is bad, and we should plaster over all of that mumbo-jumbo with a nice, sleek -- and completely opaque -- management layer. For example: systemd.

I believe this thinking is pretty much in line with Microsoft's train of thought back in the early 1990s. This is an end-user mindset -- this has nothing to do with servers, and certainly not enterprise-level servers. This "learning is hard" mentality is very damaging for Linux as a service platform.

Go ahead, kids, spackle over all of that unsightly runlevel stuff. Paint over init and cron, pam and login. Put all of that into PID1 along with dbus. Make it all pretty and whisper sweet nothings about how it's all taken care of and you won't have to read a manual or learn any silly command-line stuff. Tune your distribution for desktop workloads. Go reinvent Windows.

"You Have Your Windows in My Linux"

That was a personal matter.

He's no Copernicus, blazing a new vision previously un-charted and thus incomprehensible to his peers.

LP is just pivoting to the kind of architectural model for platform software and device/process communication that defined VMS and IBMs SNA. That way? Ah. DLL hell....

Your satire-parser needs adjustment.

How has "open source" stagnated? What are your criteria for being dynamic and viable?
Explain in 25 words.

I happen to know a bit - if not a fair amount - about the advantages and drawbacks of plain-text vs binary formats for I/O, and the brittleness of dependencies that are expressed through binary formats vs. parsing text.

The beauty and glory and travesty that are *NIX are living testimony to this. The trail of RSTS/E, MVS, VMS, DOS, MacOS, Windows.last and Android.next all demonstrate why POSIX-style systems, built on the "do one thing well" philosophy, with mostly human-readable text-based IO have longevity and are the leveragable core technology under most, more transient, graphical user shells.

SystemD is an abortion. It appeals to RedHat - who stacked the deck and manipulated the governing process to have it adopted by Debian. If they want an OS built like that? They can license the VMS sources and make their OWN copy of NT.

Hooks that fuckup a system, tying init to specific libraries and specific builds of individual device initialization and volume mapping schemes are a step back into darkness - and a cult of experts with necessary commercial funding. This is the breakdown of Open Source vs Free Software from a movement/philosophical POV.

The result of a Linux kernel tied to SystemD and PulseAudio approaches is similar to that of Android - where meaningful work is done by arcane parts of a system that relegates kernel function to the most undifferentiated commodity tasks, and source availability is almost irrelevant - because changes and fixes occur through closed processes, against a code base that is inaccessibly dense and full of binary dependency.

"Lennart, I knew Hans Reiser. Hans Reiser was a friend of mine. Lennart Poettering, you're no Hans Reiser."

Poverty, like wealth is socially engineered - not the result of a supernaturally moral system of merits.

Love it.

I'm afraid that Steve would have ripped Jony a new one, were he still around. And the Knight-Commander business? Right.

Dearest Lennart,

You can always go to work for those who adore your thinking - Microsoft and Google.

If it looks like the whole world is hurling itself against you? Maybe your headed the wrong direction into oncoming traffic.

I don't excuse boorishness or violence - but Linus and Alan Cox never got this level of treatment. Not even Hans Reiser for his obtuseness, nor Bruce Perens for his ability to scrap in an argument.

Look at the problem in the mirror. Before your friends need to call an intervention.

Dr. Shrinker. Captain Kool and the Kongs.

Those were the pains we endured, to get a glimpse of Electra Woman's spandex-clad thighs...

I miss the original Funky Phantom and Jabberjaw.

Those were truly the highlights of a distant, golden era...

You sort of are an insincere bastard, with very weak troll-magic.

Sure. "jail" is pronounced the same. :-)