Please...(again)...

Posted Aug 27, 2010 13:51 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Please...(again)... by mmcgrath
Parent article: Systemd and Fedora 14

I don't see what you are talking about. Much of what you use on a regular basis was designed in the same way driven by self interest and tackling problems they are interested in. It might not be some low hanging fruit that you want to tackle but obviously different people have different interests. If you want to tackle a different problem, go ahead and do that.

Please...(again)...

Posted Aug 27, 2010 14:00 UTC (Fri) by mmcgrath (guest, #44906) [Link] (1 responses)

> Much of what you use on a regular basis was designed in the same way driven by self interest and tackling problems they are interested in.

I agree, and relative quality difference compared to what is available around it has grown wider and wider. The Linux desktop is a wasteland of disjointed features and applications that only sort of work together written by groups that have far more reach then manpower and no central design other then freedom. We've made almost no headway on the desktop in the last _10_ years. We're still sitting at 1%. I'm tired of playing this tune, I need to just accept that.

But now I'm seeing these crazy disjointed desktop bits make their way into core system parts (note: NetworkManager didn't replace network scripts for a reason in RHEL6). So now I worry that where we have made great headway (on the server) is now being put at risk by these silly disjointed 'features'.

Please...(again)...

Posted Aug 27, 2010 14:10 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

And what is the proposed solution here? As long as you are not paying people to work on what you want, it is always going to be a distributed set of components with no central design or authority. It is sort of like evolution, messy and inefficient but noone else has proposed a better way to tackle it without throwing away a lot of money on something that might not pay dividends even years later.