From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 9472 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2022 21:06:14 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 11 Jul 2022 21:06:14 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7295240B9B; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:06:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail.hack.org (mail.hack.org [193.138.217.67]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 594F340B96 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:06:09 +1000 (AEST) Received: from authenticated user by mail.hack.org for coff@tuhs.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2022 21:04:52 +0000 From: Michael Cardell Widerkrantz To: Computer Old Farts Forum In-Reply-To: <20220709002907.GB28363@tau1.ceti.pl> References: <20220708074049.GB3053@tau1.ceti.pl> <87mtdj3now.fsf@hack.org> <20220709002907.GB28363@tau1.ceti.pl> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 23:04:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87a69f2wek.fsf@hack.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Message-ID-Hash: EKCPGKGYVM33XHPVHKEEHCJK7VMV4YV3 X-Message-ID-Hash: EKCPGKGYVM33XHPVHKEEHCJK7VMV4YV3 X-MailFrom: mc@hack.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Tomasz Rola , 2022-07-09 02:29 (+0200): > On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 12:26:23PM +0200, Michael Cardell Widerkrantz wrote: >> Tomasz Rola , 2022-07-08 09:40 (+0200): >> >> > Well, what the title says. Some folks here wandered what the future >> > may be. I suppose destroying Linux, or making it irrelevant. >> >> Microsoft of today is really not the Microsoft of the 1990s. There are a >> lot of people at MSFT working on Linux in different forms. > > If you know this first hand, then great. I do. I have friends at Microsoft. > I admit, after 1995 I have only used anything MS about few times a > year or so. Ha! I haven't actually used anything from Microsoft for a long time. Last time I was forced to was in 2004, I think. I even had to use Word! When I found VBacs which turned MS Word into a resemblance of Emacs my productivity soured. https://www.rath.ca/Misc/VBacs/ SWMBO has a Windows laptop, though, so I still see it sometimes. >> I suppose more distributions would look at the alternatives like OpenRC >> or S6. > > Maybe. I am still trying to evaluate various alternatives to Debian > and I am not so sure. Alpine is very popular. It's using OpenRC and eyeing S6, I've heard. https://www.alpinelinux.org/ -- MC, https://hack.org/mc/