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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdUmlGxVo0 Poettering has clearly the better arguments than this reactionary Draxinger die-hard.
Poettering gets things wrong more than once, and Draxinger could have stomped him, if he were a little bit more informed on the details.
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But you do have time to discredit people and make personal comment without actually reviewing their work yourself.
You seem to be implicitly claiming that one only earns a right to critique the usability of a given piece of software if one is also capable of debugging and enhancing that software. Do you really believe that?
3. I don't understand the desire to trim seconds off of boot-up time (even assuming that systemd does this; it didn't for me). The goal should be to restart less often, not to restart more quickly. 5. The systemd documentation is indeed very good, and that's probably one of the biggest drivers behind its adoption. However, it is also difficult. A big part of the pushback from people over systemd is that it also repla…
As someone who's administered Solaris machines rather extensively, I find the SMF (the init system on Solaris which, in part, inspired systemd) to be much easier to manage than sysvinit. Specifically, it makes it easier to add new services than either writing new shell scripts or adapting old ones. It makes it easier to make services which depend on one-another. And it makes it easier to know which services are runni…
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He's this decade's Ulrich Drepper.
Drepper is a very nice and intelligent guy. I liked his recent foss.in talks: "Why knowing your hardware is important" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUUdVFZBd5g "Scalable Parallel Programming Techniques" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfimI7UC9Pg
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Well, consider his response here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461546 First, he denies that this is something people need. Then, when he is told that people need it, he says that they are just doing things the wrong way. Then, when people point out that this is neither unusual nor the wrong thing to want to do, he just repeats that this is not what was intended so too bad. He offers no advice on how to…
Yes, that bug discussion show very well what's wrong with Lennart and his software.
------------------------------- Internal Server Error
TracError: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/lennart/svn/trac/pulseaudio/VERSION'
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That kind of sums up.
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Yes, that bug discussion show very well what's wrong with Lennart and his software.
I also find it telling how he closes the ticket asking everyone to go upstream and use PulseAudio's ticket system ( http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/606 ), which gives me this error: ------------------------------- Internal Server Error TracError: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/lennart/svn/trac/pulseaudio/VERSION' -------------------------------- That kind of sums up.
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You seem to be implicitly claiming that one only earns a right to critique the usability of a given piece of software if one is also capable of debugging and enhancing that software. Do you really believe that?
Yes, you should be an expert of the field to critique it. Otherwise you are talking about thing that you don't know yourself.
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You seem to be implicitly claiming that one only earns a right to critique the usability of a given piece of software if one is also capable of debugging and enhancing that software. Do you really believe that?
Yes, you should be an expert of the field to critique it. Otherwise you are talking about thing that you don't know yourself.
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I also find it telling how he closes the ticket asking everyone to go upstream and use PulseAudio's ticket system ( http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/606 ), which gives me this error: ------------------------------- Internal Server Error TracError: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/lennart/svn/trac/pulseaudio/VERSION' -------------------------------- That kind of sums up.
He doesn't run a bug tracker any more?
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One reason is that pulseaudio broke audio for many Linux users (including me). Linux audio has long been problematic but had reached a point of stability when pulseaudio was adopted by some of the major distributions. I have no idea if the problem was that pulseaudio was broken, with distributors messing up, or with Linux audio drivers. When a problem is easily solved by just an "apt-get remove X" it is easy to start…
The thing is that this is a really dated opinion. While I realise that it was really painful for those months, the end result is that audio on Linux seems to work a hell of a lot better these days. By making Linux audio temporarily problematic Linux audio became a solved problem (at least in my mind, and the minds of many users of the major distributions that use it)
And everytime, without fail, audio starts working again.