A vivid discussion has broken out between members of the community, whether q66 considers her/himself one or not is not our prerogative to define, or exclude anyone, about the hardcore stance against FOSS pests such as systemd, elogind, dbus, udev, etc. So since the topic of discussion is very specific it would have been best if a topic addressed the specific issue, which is irrelevant to whether Chimera Linux belongs on a strict list of distributions without systemd or not. The criteria about that list are very clear. The criteria for the “gray” list are not very clear, but nobody really cares about this sloppy list of gray categorized distros, such as void, artix, and devuan. Continue reading
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Sabotage Linux on the “progress” of Linux
Since we agree with every word and punctuation in this article, we proudly republish it from the Sabotage Linux website:
When “progress” is backwards
Lately I see many developments in the linux FOSS world that sell themselves as progress, but are actually hugely annoying and counter-productive.
Counter-productive to a point where they actually cause major regressions, costs, and as in the case of GTK+3 ruin user experience and the possibility that we’ll ever enjoy “The year of the Linux desktop”.
Everybody knows that the employer takes all the moral responsibility …
… the employee is just doing “his job”, and if he doesn’t do it someone else will. Were you as tired of listening to such excuses when your colleagues were asked whether they were willing to work for the “defense industry” or surveillance agencies? Everyone has heard this one time or another as an excuse, “I am just doing the job I am paid to do”, but rarely do we hear from those who turned the offer down. Those who are not rich by any means, and not have high executive positions in larger organizations, and were fully capable to do much more, but not willing to violate their own principles.
WARNING: This has everything to do with open/free software, linux, init systems, and “choices” people make.
Where to move to after Arch-Linux-based non-systemd systems?
VD, HIV, STD, Zstd
The deeper issue here is “what is the relationship of Arch-Linux and Orwell?”
Two of the most common intrusive sites reported by linux users that are placed on top of the list of a firewall, so nothing goes in and out between their machine and those sites’ servers, are Google and Facebook. Google on the one hand, in order to play nice against the free/open software community, has been contributing resources, information, and free/open software to improve their image. MS purchased github, IBM purchased RedHat, or should we say they made their relationship more formal. Some developers have fallen for it. Facebook on the other hand is notorious of flooding the machines of their innocent and unsuspecting users with questionable code. Facebook not only knows who you really are, what you really like, what you think and what you are interested in, in the vast majority of cases they know in real time your exact location and may even have the capability of keeping track of your moves. Simply if you have an account on facebook and accessed it once through your “smart” phone, they know. If you access facebook from your desktop, but on smart phone you only use your google account, they know. They, they, who is they? If you are really asking we can go on comments for as far as you can take it. Continue reading
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