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Why Did It Take Devuan Two Years to Replace Systemd?

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Re: Why Did It Take Devuan Two Years to Replace Systemd?

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Don't forget security. When there's a problem with systemd shit hits the fan. When there's a problem with a widely used piece of software that only does one job the mess is smaller and easier to clean up.

What? Need I remind you of Heartbleed?

Yes, it was an issue in one moving part. The fix did not require significant tiptoeing around to prevent breaking everything else. It's a perfect example of the "do one thing well" philosophy paying off.

Re: Why Did It Take Devuan Two Years to Replace Systemd?

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OpenSSH was ported from BSB because there was no alternative in Linux. If not for GNU available for Linus, we would have now flame wars Red Hat vs Canonical coreutils. X was fine 20 years ago as a prototype. In the meantime, we could have Linux Foundation to create a modern alternative. Instead, we have two competing solutions MIR and Wayland that still do not work very well. The reason we have such clusterfuck of in…

pretty much all your assertions are factually incorrect, and show a significant immaturity on your part regarding your work experience in this ecosystem. This might help: http://www.google.com OpenSSH was ported from BSB because there was no alternative in Linux The original version of SSH was available for Linux, before OSSH or OpenSSH where developed. X was fine 20 years ago as a prototype Chortle. X stopped being…

SSH Orginal version became proprietary and was forked by BSD developers. Later portable version was created for Linux and other operating systems. You have now situation critical protocol and implementation is maintained by OpenBSD Foundation.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell#History_and_devel...

X was not intended for the desktop. It was used as a prototype because there was nothing better. We are stuck with an ancient client-server architecture that cannot properly display video playback inside the browser.

I respect your opinion, but you just ignore anything in your holy temple of Linux.

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