Amen to all that. Arch Linux worked for me for many years, but the Arch philosophy of adopting bleeding edge software has become increasingly difficult to deal with, given the corporate takeover of Linux. Started out with BSD in the early days, moved to Slackware, Debian, and then Arch. Finally got fed up and explored the major BSD derivatives and OpenBSD was the only one I found where things just work (most of the time!).
Kudos to Theo and everybody involved. I try to help where I can, though my abilities and time are limited even in retirement. Dave On 4/14/20, Oddmund G. <stati...@cryptolab.net> wrote: > Le 14/04/2020 à 15:49, Ottavio Caruso a écrit : >> On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 12:06, Oddmund G. <stati...@cryptolab.net> wrote: >>> Since the ongoing corporate takeover of GNU+Linux, >> GNU, whether we like them or not, have not been and will not be taken >> over by "corporate", as long as Stallman is alive. >> >> As for Linux, it is not an OS but just a kernel. The only distros that >> has been taken over by "corporate" are Red Hat (but it was annoyingly >> corporate-friendly even before it was bought by IBM) and SuSE. The >> remaining <insert random number> have not been taken over by >> "corporate" if they wanted to. >> >> Cheap digs don't usually get the facts right. >> > I know all this, Ottavio. I have been using GNU+Linux since 1994 after > several years with Ultrix/VMS/OpenVMS @DEC: Slackware in the beginning, > then Debian until the forced introduction of systemd and the rest of the > crap being considered as 'much better' and 'mandatory'. > > Even FSF has swallowed this, because systemd is 'free software', > Trisquel being Ubuntu-based adopted it as if nothing had happened or > they probably thougfht they had no choice. Stallman pissed in his pants > and is not relevant any more. > > Corporate takeovers does not happen overnight and there are some > resistance. 60-70 Linux 'distributions' are still using non-systemd > inits. The problem is that the 'big' core distributions are being > streamlined to be 'compatible' with 'New Linu$'. Micro$oft became a > member of the Linu$ Foundation almost four years ago. I strongly believe > that it was not for 'fun'... > > Linux is doomed. Closer 'integration' of systemd, pulseaudio, wayland > ++. with other system components will make it very difficult, if not > impossible to continue resisting and keeping up alternative GNU+Linux > development in the future. This was one of the reasons why I switched to > OpenBSD a couple of years ago. I tried it for a while by the end of the > '90s, but it wasn't adapted to what I was doing at that time, so I > switched back to Debian. > > Now I am retired and it is absolutely perfect! Thank you Theo & all the > other guys & girls keeping it alive and kickin'! > > Cheers, > > Oddmund > > -- David J. Raymond david.raym...@nmt.edu http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond
