Exactly. Another concern is that systemd is a huge control vector over the Linux ...

2024-10-08 12:34:47

Exactly.

Another concern is that systemd is a huge control vector over the Linux ecosystem for the big tech industrial complex:
It's basically a bunch of RedHat (which is owned by IBM) and Microsoft employees who get to design all the standards and steer the course of development.
This "gang" has a long history of pushing controversial changes without consensus from the broader open source community.

Here's an interesting article that goes a bit more in depth about this:
https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-real-motivation-behind-systemd.html

The first blue box in this article from the same blog links to the full announcement of the Devuan fork on the Debian mailing list:
https://unixdigest.com/articles/my-choice-of-operating-system.html

I have read up on all of this a couple of months ago and it really kinda reminds me of the blocksize war and COINTELPRO...

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