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Off-topic / Re: Linux
« on March 9th, 2015, 08:52 PM »
I wouldn't call "a large pseudo-monolithic module with over 20 known security issues captures every single system call as PID 1" "bikeshed painting", but Linus Torvalds is known for thinking not far enough.
I can't see neutrality in the last quote either - where is it?
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Off-topic / Re: Linux
« on March 9th, 2015, 06:22 PM »
Large distributors (Red Hat, especially) want to push systemd into Linux (the kernel), they were successful with Gnome yet (which relies on systemd for some functions). An alternative would not only need man-power - they'd also have to convince those who instructed Lennart Poettering to develop systemd to accept their solution instead.

Canonical tried and turned. If even Canonical doesn't have enough "power" to push their own alternative, who actually would?
Of course those scenarios happened yet, widely discussed in FreeBSD forums. Linuxians don't debate much these days?
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Off-topic / Re: Linux
« on March 9th, 2015, 01:17 PM »
Quote from CerealGuy on March 9th, 2015, 10:45 AM
Even if you only donate some money, it shows that people are interested in it
The problem is that money I donate will most likely go into systemd projects when I donate it to Linux (except Slackware - do they have fundraising at all?). My usual donations go to *BSD and animal recovery projects for this reason. I remember having donated to Mint once - now they joined the systemd ship. :(
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Off-topic / Re: Linux
« on March 9th, 2015, 09:03 AM »
Quote from Bunstonious on March 9th, 2015, 02:07 AM
why not try and help the alternative movement rather than complain about it?
I do - actively contributing to a couple of open source applications and operating systems. It's just that I don't have the time to establish a better Linux distribution completely on my own.
Quote from Bunstonious on March 9th, 2015, 02:07 AM
Why is this an issue as such?
Have you ever heard of idiocracy?
Seriously though, FLOSS was about transparency one day. Systemd blurs transparency and makes it harder to understand what your system is doing. Also, with systemd enabled, you'll have to accept a pretty lot of default services if you don't want to lose "functionality". Replacing them is deprecated. Choice is made harder.
Quote from Bunstonious on March 9th, 2015, 02:07 AM
So you don't like something you haven't used? Seems Legit...
Missed the last part, haven't you?
Quote from Bunstonious on March 9th, 2015, 02:07 AM
I'm not a beginner.
No one said you were.
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Off-topic / Re: Linux
« on March 9th, 2015, 01:53 AM »
Quote from Bunstonious on March 9th, 2015, 01:34 AM
I read the topic, still am unsure as to why you hate linux (did you lose files?) or SystemD, I actually like it.
I don't hate Linux, it's just that it doesn't anything better than other available operating systems (or kernels) anymore. (Yes, I lost files - Linux just tends to have close to no QA, leading to banana software, maturing with the customer.) Systemd is a different beast, basically kidnapping most system core functionality and replacing it with abstraction layers which just make things worse.
Quote from Bunstonious on March 9th, 2015, 01:34 AM
The average end user doesn't normally care about SystemD, or hate it.
One day, end users will have forgot that Linux admins could parse their system logs without third-party applications, only using cat and grep from the POSIX kit. Sweet old times. Admittedly, I never used systemd as I jumped from the sinking Linux boat before it was integrated, but the existing virtual machines make me feel sick yet.

openSUSE, that said, is a nice beginner Linux, much better than Ubuntu for what it does - if you like it.
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Off-topic / Re: Linux
« on March 8th, 2015, 08:05 PM »
Quote from CerealGuy on March 8th, 2015, 07:38 PM
Pick another distro or build it on your own.
So, basically, end users who don't want to dig into tech will have to defeat and accept the unwelcome "feature". Non-systemd distributions with a certain appeal to non-programmers are rare at best.
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Off-topic / Re: Linux
« on March 8th, 2015, 05:45 PM »
Stop your off-topic spam. This is about Linux, not about whether you like or dislike those who stopped using it.
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Off-topic / Re: Linux
« on March 8th, 2015, 03:38 PM »
I left Linux in 2012 - here's my story - and recommend everyone to follow my example. systemd is the last thing you'd ever want to have on your desktops, trust me.
There is close to no reason to still use Linux for anything, except "using Steam without having to pay for a Windows license" (if you haven't had one yet). For all other purposes, there's BSD.

Posted from my Windows desktop while connected to my FreeBSD server, having my OpenBSD desktop in sight. ::)
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Off-topic / Re: Happy New Year
« on January 5th, 2015, 03:20 PM »
But it's not finished yet!





 :whistle:
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Plugins / Re: Tapatalk support?
« on October 13th, 2014, 11:45 PM »
They don't require you to advertise. I'm currently using XenForo for my current board project; the official Tapatalk add-on has neat checkmarks for "disturb your users by offensively advertising Tapatalk if they're using a mobile device".

(Of course, the labels are different.)
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Plugins / Re: Tapatalk support?
« on September 19th, 2014, 12:10 PM »
There's still a huge difference between Tapatalk and a responsive mobile theme. It's about integration.
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Off-topic / Re: I'd like to be removed from Wedge
« on September 6th, 2014, 02:44 AM »
Whoa. Things are happening.
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Archived fixes / Re: Wedge.org broken in IE11
« on August 15th, 2014, 01:58 AM »
Looks like the CSS just isn't loaded. Anything in the error console?
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Features / Re: Language revs
« on March 16th, 2014, 03:13 AM »
Quote from Pandos on February 10th, 2014, 10:53 PM
German is the mother of all languages?  :angel: :whistle:
Actually, that's Germanic. :whistle:
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Off-topic / Re: PHP | Learning
« on February 6th, 2014, 05:52 PM »
Don't mix up HTML and PHP. While PHP usually compiles to HTML, both should be treated separately.