It's bad design and therfore a wrong standard. Also, it's a security desaster.
Frato
joined 10 months ago
the *nix system up to the shell enviroment needs to be clean, libre and true to the vision - everything beyond may be. .. whatever...
I think the init system matters A LOT! Systemd is anti-unix-style and making it a "new default" and forcing it, by depending on it, is breaking the best os-design there is: the unix-like system. (who changes it will be forced to reinvent it...better stay close to the original vision in the first place)
If you're into kernel hacking, you may consider supporting the HyperbolaBSD project, which seems much more promising than hurd.
Hyperbola has the best vision for a clean and libre general-OS.
Yes, they very strict about the interpretation of "libre", but that makes the vision pure and crystal clear.
nevermind, parabola is a great distro (with openrc version), but hyperbola will not draw dev-power from pb, because it will be a completly own breed. Yes the existing BSD's are great, but none of them are fsf conform.
The effort of the hb-bsd will produce OSS that can synergize with all the projects you named.
made me smile, have an upvote 😉
More information: roadmap
https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:manual:contrib:hyperbola_roadmap
That is true. There are linux distros around with musl/busybox (alpine) and some distros without systemd. But i would really appreciate a fsf-conform distro with a fsf-conform BSD-kernel and the bsd userland - it's just a nice addition to the existing oss-os world. It is not about "this OR that" - why not have both?
p.s. both runit and openrc are close enough to the unix philosophy
p.s.s. yes, macos derived from openBSD and is using a sytemd-like init, but - as said - macos mainly targets end-user system... it's o'right for that - i think power users prefer os-designs closer to the unix philosophy.
BSD based systems (with the according userland) have a very clean and more minimalistic code base. In the last years Gnu/Linux systems drifted away from the ideals of the unix-style (e.g. systemd...). For an end-user-system this may be ok, but the general design of the bsd-systems is better imho.
or: cp my.iso /dev/sdaX
(much faster than dd)