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Poettering: The Most Awesome, Least-Advertised Fedora 17 Feature

Posted May 2, 2012 22:53 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Poettering: The Most Awesome, Least-Advertised Fedora 17 Feature by engla
Parent article: Poettering: The Most Awesome, Least-Advertised Fedora 17 Feature

I don't think it's a big sin.

Especially when Mark Shuttleworth writes a blog post about your product claiming that he can't use it because it has substandard quality due to inherent bad design choices and has no testing behind it.

I know I would find that irritating and would want to point out when my project does something really cool in a relatively simple manner due to it's design.

That being said it's not classy. Just goes to show the guy can be easily provoked. Not a big deal, IMO.

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Poettering: The Most Awesome, Least-Advertised Fedora 17 Feature

Posted May 3, 2012 1:33 UTC (Thu) by jmorris42 (subscriber, #2203) [Link]

> I don't think it's a big sin.

Agreed. This is a pretty big win if it really works in the real world. I'd say big enough to finally justify all the bluster about systemd in the first place. To date it has been more pain than gain for most users, this development promises to change that equation entirely by having a major feature to point to.

So let him gloat a bit, especially since Ubuntu started this particular blogwar.

Not saying I'm going to stop saying nasty things about Poettering from time to time when he strays from the "Unix Way". Most of the time he seems to either be really wrong or really right. This time he is looking really right. MultiSeat is about as "Unix Way" as it gets.

Poettering: The Most Awesome, Least-Advertised Fedora 17 Feature

Posted May 3, 2012 2:52 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736) [Link]

systems (and pam_systemd in particular) are already a big deal. It's helping us out a lot in letting us safely efficiently use some big Fedora 16 systems as remote browsing servers with NX.

Poettering: The Most Awesome, Least-Advertised Fedora 17 Feature

Posted May 3, 2012 2:53 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736) [Link]

systemd, not systems, gah.