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It's weird also, given that spotify were pushing systemd[0] hard, shuttleworth[1] conceded - but the version of LTS Ubuntu 14.04 [2] that spotify switched to is on Upstart. [0] http://www.muktware.com/2014/01/spotify-uses-debian-endorses-systemd-i… [1] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316 [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2014/06/msg00014.html

What website is that? Did anyone else go to its homepage (http://www.muktware.com/) and notice an unhealthy obsession with Linus Torvalds and exclusive interviews?

If there are bugs in systemd, they have to be fixed. Philosophically, yes. Realistically? The behavior of some of the people on the systemd bug tracker[1] is the single most convincing argument against adopting it. It might break things? Sure, it's a pretty massive change. People are going to have to re-learn how to do a lot? Again, it's a pretty fundamental shift in a lot of ways. This is expected. The developers will fucking backtalk you[2] and make political issues out of clearcut things? Uh.. no. That's forkworthy behavior. That's dysfunctional enterprise behavior, which is something I'd imagine the average hacker hates instinctually. And sure, in the end, those bugs were addressed, but it took an outburst from Linus and widespread, public coverage (and I'm sure no small amount of offline discussion among the systemd folks) for it to happen. Poettering is on record as wondering why systemd attracts so much hate. He only need look in the mirror. [1]: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935 [2]: http://www.muktware.com/2014/04/linus-torvalds-happy-systemd-author-ka…

I see this as related and it is less than a month old: http://www.muktware.com/2014/04/linus-torvalds-happy-systemd-author-ka… https://plus.google.com/u/0/+TheodoreTso/posts/K7ijdmxJ8PF I am not much of a systemd fan so I may be biased but it is interesting read anyway.

> As was shown on a recent post - Linus reverted to swearing in his native tongue Actually, he swore in Finnish in that post, and as a Swedish-speaking Finn, Swedish, and not Finnish, is his native language. http://www.muktware.com/news/2857/which-linus-torvalds%E2%80%99-native…

That's nothing. Check these comments, anywhere else you would get summarily fired for emails like this. http://www.muktware.com/5276/linus-torvalds-secure-boot-supporters-not… "Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest. If you want to parse PE binaries, go right ahead. If Red Hat wants to deep-throat Microsoft, that's your issue..." What if that email was to a female kernel dev? What if a whizkid reads the kernel dev mailing list and goes asks their parents what deepthroating means?

What you say makes a lot of sense. In another comment on this, I mentioned that the leaders of the open source world seem to be famously aggressive, prickly, and concerned only with the truth, not with feelings or being polite [1]. Changing the culture to something "kind", if that is what the community truly wants, will take more than a few donated repos. It will be interesting to see the impact it happens. [1] One of many examples http://www.muktware.com/3703/linus-torvalds-nvidia-fuck-you

Not exactly political, but the man has a point. Better explanation here linked from Slashdot here (the actual mailing list site is down.) http://www.muktware.com/5276/linus-torvalds-secure-boot-supporters-not…

Sensationalism alert. This is a soundbyte; here's more context and less shitty journalism: http://www.muktware.com/4042/richard-m-stallman-steam-good-gnulinux

They managed to turn a file manager into something like http://cache.lifehacker.com/assets/images/17/2011/08/xlarge_ribbon-exp… when something like http://www.muktware.com/sites/default/files/images/applications/Nautil… would work just as well. Yuck.

From what I read they remain neutral. Redhat though is against it: http://www.muktware.com/news/3230/sopa-pipa-are-threatening-innovation… Mageia: http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/01/18/stop-sopa/ OpenSUSE: http://news.opensuse.org/2012/01/17/why-opensuse-org-goes-on-strike-to…

Then¹: I actually think secure boot makes a lot of sense. I think we should sign our modules. I think we should use the technology to do cryptographic signatures to add security; and at the same time inside the open source community this is so unpopular that people haven't really worked on it. Now: I’m an optimist: openness is successful in the long run, secure boot is another one of these passing fads. Not implying that he is being incoherent or, even worse, that he cannot change his mind. The passing fad of secure boot meant by Linus is probably using it to lock down a device. ¹. http://www.muktware.com/news/2865 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196098

@oracuk yes that would explain it. I was wondering since there are rumours (http://techrights.org/2013/11/24/tpm-back-doors-patriot-act-etc/) of possible RedHat being too close to the NSA who is to rule out similar interests or ties between GHCQ and Ubuntu? Canonical is a UK company which could easily be convinced to add certain features. (see also privacy issues http://beta.slashdot.org/story/182197) @wiml please see the link provided by @oracuk and also below: http://www.zdnet.com/uks-security-branch-says-ubuntu-most-secure-end-u… http://www.muktware.com/2014/01/ubuntu-12-04-lts-declared-secure-os-gc… http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/linux-the-clear…

Here are the links: http://www.muktware.com/blogs/1721 (an older interview in full) This one: http://www.muktware.com/news/2855 http://www.muktware.com/news/2857 http://www.muktware.com/news/2859 http://www.muktware.com/news/2860 http://www.muktware.com/news/2861 http://www.muktware.com/news/2862 http://www.muktware.com/news/2863 http://www.muktware.com/news/2864 http://www.muktware.com/news/2865 Also, interesting portmanteau domain name - muktware means free (soft)ware in Indian languages.