On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:16:27PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Miroslav Rovis > <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote: > > > It's been discussed over and over again. Lots of people are firm in > > their understanding that Lennart is an actor by and for the big > > business. Me too. > > Well, he is a Red Hat employee. Nobody really debates that.
Maybe it's not intentional spyware malice, but rather that home users are being jerked around while Redhat re-writes linux as a corporate OS. So systemd gets your machine running 2 to 5 seconds faster? So what, you say. But Redhat is into cloud stuff... https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing and they have to quickly meet spikes in demand by clients, and there are service-level agreements with financial penalties if they don't. There are 2 ways to do that... 1) Have a lot of VM's and/or dockers idling in the background sucking up cpu and ram and electricity, to meet sudden spikes in demand. 2) Have fewer VM's and/or dockers idling in the background sucking up cpu and ram and electricity, but be able to spin up new instances more quickly. Having just a few developers at Redhat is not enough to maintain systemd, so they push systemd everywhere via their connections, so that many open source users and dvelopers participate in testing and maintaining systemd. Systemd does all sorts of management that isn't really required by the regular home user, but Redhat doesn't give a hoot about their experience being made more difficult. Redhat only cares about their paying customers. Similarly, the vast majority of home users have a machine with one ethernet port, and in the past it's always been eth0. Now the name varies in each machine depending on the motherboard layout; oogabooga11? foobar42? It may be static, but you don't know what it'll be, without first booting the machine. In a truly Orwellian twist, this "feature" is referred to as "Predictable" Network Interface Names. It only makes things easier for corporate machines acting as gateways/routers, with multiple ports. Again, the average home user is being jerked around for a corporate agenda. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
