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What Have We Created?

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-so-meta-even-this-acronym dept.

jcd writes:

"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.

So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:08PM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:08PM (#3773)

    You're spot on with that, the whole systemd discussion got lost in the flame wars between Android and IOS and Windows. Yet it was very significant, the wholesale gutting and replacement of key of 'Nix with hardly any of that debate hitting slashdot.

    And what did hit slashdot was late to the party, and quickly descended into name calling.

    The only insight that came from the brief exposure systemd did get on slashdot was that the changeover "was not for you". It was done for big corporate reasons and big military reasons, and big spy reasons, by Red hat and Lennart Poettering, and Joe Linux user was just along for the ride.

    The key take away was that Linux was being "corporatized".

    But boy did you have to dig to arrive at that, and boy did the discussion get nasty.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @03:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @03:58AM (#4156)
    systemd's fundamental flaw is straying from the Unix Philosophy. The very name of it--systemd--suggests that it might as well just be part of the kernel. The variety of things it does, all in one little package with binary logging (a huge no-no) to boot...that puts it into the monolithic software category, along with IDEs and everything else anti-Unix. The Unix Way is about having the tool that does ONE thing and does it WELL. Sysvinit, for all its headaches, has the advantage of pushing the decisions about "what next" out to a more appropriate tool, instead of trying to handle it all on its own. This is the Microsoftization of Linux.