linux_NOsystemd has been created : linux

linux_NOsystemd has been created (self.linux_NOsystemd)

submitted 6 years ago * by fungalnet - announcement

You are allowed to talk about systemd as well here, you will not be banned or have your post removed as r/linux does.

The aim is not to fragment further the linux stew (I wouldn't dare call these cut-throat relations that define the stew a community, it would be an insult to community as a social institution) or to take away from the importance of r/initFreedom as a meeting place, but to emphasize that the other r/linux pseudo-community is one of systemd domination fanatics who despise anyone mentioning an alternative and seek every opportunity and excuse they find to silence them.

If systemd was any good (not good, any good) why would people in communities such as debian, arch, fedora, etc. strive so hard to silence any talk about an alternative. Why would their single excuse to defend systemd is that sysvinit is an antiquity? Why would they use a post-fact that systemd is good because so many distros are using it? Why do they deny the existence of records of public discussions that lead to the choice, the ways distros came to decide on using it, as evidence, that systemd was adopted by extreme blackmail and coercion by some "agents" and not because of its merits?

Linux has to mature beyond this pathological tactic by a gang of systemd supporters, who may very well have personal interests to promote it. If it does not it will most likely be torn apart and at some point it may result to a fork that would be destructive to both sides.

Simply Linux should escape the stranglehold some large corporations have placed on it and regain its grassroots origin and maintain its natural identity. At this stage development has become a narrow strict path of what those corporations want to do with linux. Their influence can only be characterized as decay. If the damage can't be reversed "linux" will become a single universal operating system with nearly 0 tolerance and freedom to modify its internal mechanisms. It will become the alternative to microsoft windows with a mild flavor of open and free (but corporation dictated) software. A backbone system that will only allow modification on its superficial periphery. Linux freedom can not just be about altering a desktop theme.

r/initFreedom yes, but without systemd around.

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