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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait Arch and Debian are owned by IBM? It sounds like one insane piece of conspiracy tbh.

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nah, I'm just referring to IBM's acquisition of redhat. I've been referring to redhat as IBM in kind.

[–] boredsquirrel 46 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

And neither Arch, nor Ubuntu, nor Debian, nor OpenSUSE, nor any other distro using systemd belongs to IBM.

systemd has nothing to do with any corporation doing bad stuff to "our Linux".

It is just newer software, doing more things more easily.

Sure, the centralization is pretty damn bad. But for example replacing sudo is needed.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

But for example replacing sudo is needed.

There's plenty of 100-loc tools for that already. And doas, who has most of sudo's server-features, is not much bigger.

And they all work even without systemd or services.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But for example replacing sudo is needed.

Seriously asking: what's wrong with Sudo? And aren't there already loads of alternatives?

[–] boredsquirrel 7 points 3 months ago

I suppose doas is a pretty great alternative.

Smaller code is often good, but not always.

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And neither Arch, nor Ubuntu, nor Debian, nor OpenSUSE, nor any other distro using systemd belongs to IBM.

Where did I say they belong to IBM?

Sure, the centralization is pretty damn bad. But for example replacing sudo is needed.

We already have doas, which is such a simple codebase I'd have a hard time imagining it contains a bug that leads to setuid being a problem. run0's codebase size on the other hand...

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Eeeh, if anything, systemd is Microsoft's contribution.

/s sort of

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is RH related to Arch lol? By having GNU core utils?

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

Arch ships redhat userland (systemd) and doesn't support alternative userlands; you have to go to artix for that.