Glad to find Systemd mentioned on HN. Just kidding: systemd is not a kernel module.
Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.
Because it’s beating a dead horse.
The world's worst Linux kernel module
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Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module
#12Oh that's exciting, NVidia have open sourced their driver and put it up on Github?
No need to make HN into reddit, reddit already exists
Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module
#13Glad to find Systemd mentioned on HN. Just kidding: systemd is not a kernel module.
Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.
I tend to downvote jokes or non-substantive comments about systemd (although I haven't downvoted any of the comments on this post).
Like any other software system, anyone is welcome to question or doubt or disagree with systemd's design decisions. But some people seem to have an almost irrational hatred for it, far beyond what a mere software package calls for. Even if a person making a joke about systemd isn't themselves like that, being reminded of it all makes me want to reach for that downvote button. And the topic gets tiring after a while anyway, it has been done to death already.
Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module
#14> Caveat: this is my first ever kernel module, so I may have committed more mistakes than I intended. lol. Reminds me of the "hypocrite commits" fiasco where researchers at the University of Minnesota submitted kernel patches with what they thought were security vulnerabilities, but because of their inexperience, the first patch they sent was actually valid and had no vulnerabilities whatsoever[1]. [1] https://www-us…
It doesn't sound like it was "because of their inexperience" but rather because determining whether Linux C code is buggy is really hard. That's kind of the whole point.
Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.
I tend to downvote jokes or non-substantive comments about systemd (although I haven't downvoted any of the comments on this post). Like any other software system, anyone is welcome to question or doubt or disagree with systemd's design decisions. But some people seem to have an almost irrational hatred for it, far beyond what a mere software package calls for. Even if a person making a joke about systemd isn't thems…
Finally, cancel culture has a firm grip on Free Software, achievement unlocked!
Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module
#16Glad to find Systemd mentioned on HN. Just kidding: systemd is not a kernel module.
I actually like systemd now, thanks to antix
Re: The world's worst Linux kernel module
#17Oh that's exciting, NVidia have open sourced their driver and put it up on Github?
:D "Module taints kernel" [0]
[0] https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/nvi...
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.
I tend to downvote jokes or non-substantive comments about systemd (although I haven't downvoted any of the comments on this post). Like any other software system, anyone is welcome to question or doubt or disagree with systemd's design decisions. But some people seem to have an almost irrational hatred for it, far beyond what a mere software package calls for. Even if a person making a joke about systemd isn't thems…
Systemd of course has had its share of issues. But a lot of also comes down as natural resistance of change by sysadmins, which is a well documented psychological phenomenom
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2466/09.02.10.CP.1....
… and sysadmins tend to be at the deep end of the spectrum