Lennart poettering on all the flak he keeps getting and. I linked to the systemd project website where you can find out what systemd is trying to do any why. Its not like free software has a shortage of talented contributors that people hate for a variety of reasons. Boston linux unix march 2016 understanding systemd presented by christoph doebeck principal solutions architect red hat additional credits patrick ladd red hat tam what is systemd. For clarity, lennart poettering is an extremely prolific guy that people. They were the only 2 distros you got with the linux bible book at the time. It is selection from handson linux administration on azure book. Strategies for the cloud revolution, a mcgrawhill book. Discuss anything linux related that doesnt fit into any of the other areas. Patrick volkerding born october 20, 1966 is the founder and maintainer of the slackware linux distribution. It started as an experiment around 20, but in 2015 the main developer lennart poettering considered it as ready for production. Lennart poettering is a dev who has contributed massive amounts of code most people in this thread use every hour of every day. Pack your bags systemd is taking you to a new home hackaday.
The official guide to slackware linux, the slackware linux essentials, has been recently revised. They sought to surpass the efficiency of the init daemon in several ways. Debian community splits over systemd, but fork still. Lennart poettering takes to battling systemd myths. Lennart poettering on systemds tumultuous ascendancy. Volkerding earned a bachelor of science in computer science from minnesota state university moorhead in 1993. Written by harry fairhead tuesday, 07 october 2014 in a blog post lennart poettering, the main force behind the controversial systemd linux configuration system, explains that any dislike of his software spills over to him personally and not just hate mail, but hit men. Lennart poettering is a german software engineer who created pulseaudio, avahi, and systemd. As lennart poettering talked about systemd pronounced system d, i was struck. Lennart poettering and kay sievers, software engineers that initially developed systemd, 1 sought to surpass the efficiency of the init daemon in several ways. The latest chapter in the ongoing furor over the software known as systemd threatens to split the debian community, after a splinter group stated that it would branch off or create a fork of the. And in fact most of his posts ignore concerns about. Sievers is the current maintainer of udev, which itself was developed by greg kroahhartman, and udev has now been merged into systemd. Of course, poettering is the creator of the controversial opensourced systemd protocol that is shaking up linuxbased operating systems.
A somewhat wellknown author of surreal horror fiction from germany, lennart poettering is mostly known for writing overly long and confusing works such as pulsations of autophilia a tragedy about a sluggish autistic teenager who is murdered while fucking his uncles porsche and comes back as a ghost to seek vengeance and systems down about a server administrator who finds himself locked in. The target of torvalds latest tirade was kay sievers, one of the key developers of systemd. Not the kernel, not the service manager, and probably nothing else at all either. As for systemd, it is rather weird not to mention lennart poettering s blog. Lennart poettering cant be bothered to look at it because nobody of us tests this. Systemdnspawn handson linux administration on azure book. Lennart poettering is leading a discussion on systemd, and i am psyched. They wanted to improve the software framework for expressing dependencies, to allow more processing to be done concurrently or in parallel during system booting, and to reduce the computational overhead of the shell. But being part of systemd itself, and seeing its influence on linux, one. I quickly removed it from my hard drive, but i guess in a way i was already.
Red hat, lennart poettering and his systemd cabal have already demonstrated the means and opportunity to produce a linux with more promiscuous module interfaces and less parts interchangability. I used ubuntu for about a year because freebsd was not up to the task of supporting intel g965 chipset with x3000 gma intel graphics adapter only deadly slow vesa was possible, so i moved temporary to ubuntu to wait for its support in the freebsd land. For instance, poettering has advocated speeding up linux development at the expense of. They wanted to improve the software framework for expressing dependencies, to allow more processing to be done concurrently or in parallel during system booting, and to reduce the. I got involved in free software back when i installed slackware in kernel 1. Lennart poettering is one of those few extremely prolific and brilliant engineers who have literally changed the design of linuxbased operating systems. Lennart poettering decided to refute a few systemd myths on his blog. Lennart poettering, creator of open source sound server pulseaudio, was recently interviewed at this years linux plumbers conference. He has created many of the basic building blocks which make up the fundamentals of modern linux distributions including pulseaudio, systemd, systemdhomed. Poettering takes on the idea that the community is one big happy family and has some harsh words. Some of lennart s comments in the article do appear to be kind of tone deaf. Systemdnspawn systemd comes with a container solution. Maybe c is ultimately not the language we should write the basic building blocks of the os in. Lennart poettering is a dev who has contributed massive amounts of code most.
You may also want to buy a printed copy, in that case please visit the slackware store. Lennart poettering talks up his new linux vision that. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. If you want to be able to read it online, you may want to visit the slackbook website. This site is like a library, you could find million book here by using search box in the header. Calling himself a really unpleasant person, he later explained id like to be a nice person and curse less and encourage people to grow rather than telling them they are idiots. The postgresql based uber address book with web interface and mutt support. In this interview, we discuss his first interaction with the linux community, why canonicals upstart initialization daemon failed to gain traction and why poettering created his own initialization software, systemd. But if someone gives you some desktoppublished magazinediarybook, just. The project was initiated in 2010 by lennart poettering and kay sievers to create an integrated set of tools for selection from linux. Linus torvalds is known for disagreeing with other developers on the linux kernel mailing list. Volkerding is slackware s benevolent dictator for life bdfl, and is also known informally as the man. A simple ad hominem attack that says nothing about the truth or falsehood of your assertion, other than the opinion of the accuser.
Lennart poettering born october 15, 1980 is a german software engineer who created. An anonymous reader writes free software programmer lennart poettering has been part of his fair share of controversy in the open source community, and his latest essay may raise the most eyebrows yet. Lennart poettering talks up his new linux vision that involves btrfs. He is poetterizing linux, making it suck in the same ways as many commercial osen. Controversial lennart poettering finds his place in linux. Never one to mince words, linux kernel chief linus torvalds has once again handed a verbal smackdown to a linux developer, this time for failing to address a serious bug that could prevent systems from booting. It was developed and is maintained by lennart poettering and kay sievers over at redhat. He promises stuff that does magic and its free, but the reality is hey can deliver, nor his sycophants and minions, anything that works. As of august 2018 update, slackware does not support or use systemd, but volkerding has not ruled out the possibility of switching to it. Well, as you may have guessed by now, lennart poettering isnt much a.
For instance, in 2014, when lennart poettering, systemds cofounder, blamed torvalds for much of the rudeness in open source development. All major linux distributions are doing very well with systemd and it makes. Booting up systemd at facebook with lennart poettering. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own. Even with udev the linux kernel has not been demanding much more than that. All things linux and gnulinux this is neither a community exclusively about the kernel linux, nor is exclusively about the gnu operating system. Lennart poettering announces the first systemd conference. As lennart poettering talked about systemd pronounced system d, i was struck not so much by his reputation as the enfant terrible of the linux kernel development process and more by the fact that hes a very bright programmer, commanding attention in an auditorium full of bright programmers poettering took the podium at coreos fest in san francisco this week to talk about. Lennart poettering on the state of open source communities. Then pulseaudio from the great lennart poettering happened and it happened hard. And any gnulinux system currently using systemd needs dbus, and will in the future come to depend upon kdbus as well. Using sndio in place of pulseaudio page 2 the freebsd. All books are in clear copy here, and all files are secure so dont worry about it. Lennart poettering is a german computer free software programmer known for his work on pulseaudio, a sound server, systemd, a replacement for the system v init daemon, and avahi, an implementation of the zeroconf protocol for network device discovery.
Some classmate of mine talked about that linux thing that supposedly was free of charge, and i installed it, and it didnt work for me at all. Lennart poettering on systemds tumultuous ascendancy in the linux community. Now poetterings feelings are hurt general discussion. A few distributions, including slackware, have not switched to it, and new distributions such as devuan and the latest release of antix. This book contains many real life examples derived from the authors experience as a linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. Lennart poettering and kay sievers, the software engineers working for red hat who initially developed systemd, started the project to develop systemd in 2010. Volkerding is a deadhead, and by april 1994 had already. Slackware is the perfect old school distro, ive used it for decades, i hope it resists systemd for as long as pratical, and when it finally succumbs, i hope good ole. Description lennart poettering reporter 20091012 22.
Bug 5347 address book cannot import vcards from benq. Controversial lennart poettering finds his place in linux community. Lennart poettering on systemds tumultuous ascendancy in. For clarity, lennart poettering is an extremely prolific. Poettering, being the lead developer of systemd, is unlikely to be objective. Lennart poettering, the creator of the controversial init system and service manager for linuxbased operating systems has announced the first systemd conference.
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