An anonymous coward writes "Former cypherpunk shares his conspiratorial view on Linux security:
Since then, more has happened to reveal the true story here, the depth of which surprised even me. The GTK development story and the systemd debate on Debian revealed much corporate pressure being brought to bear in Linux. [...] Some really startling facts about Red Hat came to light. For me the biggest was the fact that the US military is Red Hat's largest customer:
"When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source," General Justice continued. "It may come as a surprise to many of you, but the U.S. Army is 'the' single largest install base for Red Hat Linux. I'm their largest customer." (2008)
This is pretty much what I had figured. I'm not exactly new to this, and I figured that in some way the military-industrial/corporate/intelligence complex was in control of Red Hat and Linux. [...] But I didn't expect it to be stated so plainly. Any fool should realize that "biggest customer" doesn't mean tallest or widest, it means the most money. In other words, most of Red Hat's money comes from the military and, as a result, they have significant pull in its development. In that respect, the connection between the military and spying agencies, etc. should be obvious.
Next, the FOSDEM: NSA Operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report is well worth watching in its entirety (including the Q&A at the end). To me, this turned out to be a road-map detailing how Red Hat is operating on Linux!"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Lagg on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:36PM
I've been using Arch since around 2005 and I consider systemd one of the best decisions ever made. My server downtime is reduced significantly and maintenance as a whole when adding/removing services is much safer feeling. No one is forcing you to do anything, there are probably no less than 8 init packages on AUR. As for "banning anyone" I'm guessing that you really mean "banning me" and by volunteering to maintain initscripts I'm guessing you mean "because I was being a flaming jackass". Granted, I will reconsider this position if you link to proof. I would sure as hell want to know if this is happening as I don't want to support such activity.
Could optimize that, but not the point. I've never had journalctl segfault on me on any install so far. Not that I'm dismissing the possibility. But that's hardly an argument against it. Things get bugs, and they'll be fixed.
Try again, sendmail is not the only thing that used dbm by far and it only used it for caching. It was otherwise m4.
When did I say it has anything to do with the GUI? I wouldn't glorify such comparisons to such an extent. What it really is is a knee-jerk reaction. The similarities to event viewer begin and end at the fact that log data isn't plain text. People such as yourself use that as ammo to say "but now I can't read it with vi or awk D:" which is entirely false. People have since forever piped log data, regardless of source, through multiple programs before getting output. That is still easily done with journalctl but with added filtering due to the record metadata.
Huh... That is sure a leap of logic. Are you perhaps the submitter?
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