Devuan, Dejuan it. On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 6:17 PM William C Vaughan <curtvaug...@utexas.edu> wrote:
> Lurker here. Following this stuff for a couple of years, playing with > Dejuan and its downstream variants with some success, some failures, but > always interesting. I’m very empathetic to Steve Litt’s feelings on the > systemd stuff, and am particularly inspired to reply to the latest missive > on the possibility that Red Hat’s darling Mr. Poettering is primarily > motivated to make Red Hat Enterprise lots of money in offering paid support > of systemd Linux operations. As per politics, religion, educational > prerogatives, and historical perspectives as officially endorsed, in the > case of Linux and systemd, FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL. That nearly always works > in tracing the sources of derision. > > From the perspective of a retired programmer/analyst, now dilletante, you > Dejuan folks are on the precipice of success. See the forest over the > trees, get your message out as an upstream solution to Linux in the > enterprise - from servers to employee desktop/laptop solutions, there is no > reason that systemd-free Linux alternatives can’t supplant the Red Hat, > etc., cabal. They have MONEY, and that buys them exposure. My former > employer, a major university, has bought Red Hat support hook, line, and > sinker. You guys aren’t even on the radar. I only am aware of your > position and offerings as an old fart hobbyist with time to explore. I wish > you well. How can you compete with the power that is money that propagates > Red Hat, Canonical, et al? That’s your main dilima right now, perhaps on > the threshold of eclipsing your system development tasks. > > Cheers. > -- > Move from rim to hub; know the wheel. - <Anon> > -- Move from rim to hub; know the wheel. - <Anon>
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