The plumbing layer as the new kernel

Posted May 3, 2012 7:29 UTC (Thu) by aryonoco (guest, #55563)
In reply to: The plumbing layer as the new kernel by paravoid
Parent article: The plumbing layer as the new kernel

I think the criticism of the article is not warranted at all. It came across to me, as always, as our esteemed editor did a very good job of presenting both sides of the argument. One could perhaps read between the lines that the editor does prefer the tightly couple idea personally, but that was never mentioned expressly. Even if it was, editors are allowed to have opinions, heck most would agree that that's what an editorial is for.

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The plumbing layer as the new kernel

Posted May 3, 2012 9:23 UTC (Thu) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869) [Link] (3 responses)

I definitely enjoy reading our editor's opinion, even if I don't agree with it. In this case, I don't think that the article explained well what the argument is, let alone which sides there are.

But other people that commented so far seem to also disagree with my judgement, so maybe it might just be me.

The plumbing layer as the new kernel

Posted May 3, 2012 15:14 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (guest, #2813) [Link] (2 responses)

It's not completely just you, although "worst article ever" is needlessly inflammatory and quite a stretch.

Anyone who has read LWN for any length of time will know Corbet's current preferred distro is Fedora. While LWN articles on the whole are extremely objective and professional there will be a smidgen of preference from time to time, which perfectly reasonable when an author is most familiar with their specific day to day system.

The plumbing layer as the new kernel

Posted May 3, 2012 18:00 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] (1 responses)

Anyone who followed Corbet's track on Fedora would know that he flames it quite a bit internally for breaking things left and right. It also ignores that he runs various other systems with those OS's also.

Reading that he gives Fedora a free pass is really really naieve.

The plumbing layer as the new kernel

Posted May 4, 2012 14:41 UTC (Fri) by cdmiller (guest, #2813) [Link]

Certainly not trying to imply Corbet gives Fedora (or any product) a free pass.