Posted Nov 15, 2012 23:40 UTC (Thu) by akeane (subscriber, #85436)
Parent article: Crowding out OpenBSD
"Either you're a modern linux with pulseaudio and pam and systemd, or you're dying."
First they took /dev/audio
I did nothing.
Then they took /etc/password
I did nothing.
Then they took the init scripts.
I did nothing.
Finally, they came for vi...
:-(
Q. How many BSD devs does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Doesn't matter, the hardware's not supported!
Q. How many Gnome devs does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Doesn't matter, the last one to leave remembered to turn if off!!
Q. How many Lennard Poettering's does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Dunno, can't find the man page!!!
Q. How many Lennard Poettering's does it REALLY take to change a light bulb?
A. Light bulbs are old fashioned and no use to anyone, all who use them shall be crushed by the onward march of the NEW, IMPROVED, photon propagation "bulbd" which can only be changed by reading 18 documents, and requires a special bulbd reconfigurator !!!!
Q. How many "haters gonna hate"?
A. Me
Ah, my poor beloved UNIX, ruined by the "youth of today", with their utopian dreams of GUIs where I can't change where the clock goes, installers that can't be automated by a simple text file, or better, a world where whining cry babies ("haters gonna hate, waa, waa, I want my mommy"),seem to get more influence in distributions than that mean and oafish Linus fellow.
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